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Jeanette Winterson我們這個時代，最好也是最有爭議性的作傢之一。――英國《獨立報》
1959年，生於英格蘭的曼徹斯特。自小由篤信宗教的夫婦收養。當時傢中有六本書其中《亞瑟王之死》激發了溫特森對書本和寫作的渴望。1978年，溫特森開始戀愛，離傢出走。她在殯儀館、精 神病院等地留宿打工，但仍以全A的成績考進牛津大學英語係。1985年，處女作《橘子不是唯一的水果》出版，榮獲惠特布萊德首作奬。由她親自改編的同名BBC劇集也大獲好評，獲得各項國際大奬。
珍妮特·溫特森，CBE（英語：Jeanette Winterson，1959年8月27日－）是一位英國作傢。
早年生活
溫特森出生於英格蘭曼徹斯特。在蘭開夏郡的阿剋寧頓長大，她打算成為一名五旬節運動的基督教傳教士，她6歲就開始傳福音和布道。
到了16歲的溫特森已經確定自己是女同性戀並離開傢。不久後她來到阿剋林頓與羅戴爾學院學習，靠打零工維持生計，並且考入了牛津大學聖凱瑟琳學院學習英語。
個人生活
2002年，溫特森結束了她與BBC廣播電臺的Peggy Reynolds12年的伴侶關係。後來她曾與戲劇導演Deborah Warner和治療師Susie Orbach有過戀情。她的小說The Passion靈感來自於她與她的文稿代理人Pat Kavanagh的緋聞。2015年，她與心理治療師Susie Orbach結婚。
作品
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)《柳橙不是唯一的水果》遠流出版
- Boating for Beginners (1985)
- Fit For The Future: The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well (1986)
- The Passion (1987)
- Sexing the Cherry (1989)
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: the script (1990)
- Written on the Body (1992)
- Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (1994)
- Great Moments in Aviation: the script (1995)
- Art Objects (1995)
- Gut Symmetries (1997)
- The World and Other Places (1998)
- The PowerBook (2000)《筆電愛情》木馬文化出版
- The King of Capri (2003)
- Lighthousekeeping (2004)
- Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (2005)《重擔：亞特拉斯與赫丘力士的神話》大塊文化出版
- Tanglewreck (2006)
- The Stone Gods (2007)
- The Battle of the Sun (2009)
- Ingenious (2009)
- The Lion, The Unicorn and Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story (2009)
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011)《正常就好，何必快樂》木馬文化出版
- The Daylight Gate (2012)
- The Gap of Time (2015)《挑戰莎士比亞1：時間的空隙》寂寞出版
參考資料
- ^ Jeanette Winterson: all about my mother. The Guardian (London). 2011-10-29[2011-10-29]. （原始內容存檔於2012-11-10）.
- ^ Brooks, Libby. Power surge. The Guardian (London). 2000-09-02 [2012-09-02]. （原始內容存檔於2008-10-12）.
- ^ International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 6, Number 4 頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館. SpringerLink. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Patricia Juliana Smith. Winterson, Jeanette (b. 1959). glbtq Encyclopedia. 2006-07-24[2008-12-04]. （原始內容存檔於27 十二月 2008）.
- ^ Winterson profile 互聯網檔案館的存檔，存檔日期2012-03-25.
- ^ Lancashire Telegraph "Amazon sorry for book sales error which hit Accrington author" 14 April 2009. [2012-09-02]. （原始內容存檔於2016-08-06）.
- ^ Maya Jaggi. Saturday Review: Profile: Jeanette Winterson. The Guardian (London). 2004-05-29 [2008-12-04]. （原始內容存檔於2013-01-15）.
- ^ Stuart Jeffries. Jeanette Winterson: 'I thought of suicide'. The Guardian (London). 2010-02-22 [2011-08-15]. （原始內容存檔於2013-07-21）.
- ^ Gadher, Dipesh. Lesbian novelist Jeanette Winterson planned last visit to dying ex-lover. The Sunday Times. 2008-10-26 [2011-03-17].
- ^ Stuart Jeffries. Jeanette Winterson: 'I thought of suicide'. The Guardian (London). 2010-02-22 [2011-08-15]. （原始內容存檔於2013-07-21）.
Jeanette Winterson CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity, with later novels also exploring the relationship between humans and technology. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
Winterson has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, the St. Louis Literary Award, and is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. She has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.