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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
First novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel.  Multiple award winner.  Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers".  Most recent novel is 'The Daylight Gate' (2013).
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Writer.  Her first novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel.  Multiple award winner.  Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers".  Recent novels include 'The Daylight Gate' (2013) and 'Frankisstein' (2019). Working on a series of short internet films with the BBC.
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==See Also==
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* [[Feminist Activists Who Identify as Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender]]
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==

Latest revision as of 14:06, 7 April 2020

Jeanette Winterson

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1959 -

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

OBE

Whitbread Prize

Description

Writer. Her first novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. Multiple award winner. Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers". Recent novels include 'The Daylight Gate' (2013) and 'Frankisstein' (2019). Working on a series of short internet films with the BBC.

See Also

Further Reading/Research


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