Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson, 2005 in Warsaw

Jeanette Winterson CBE (born August 27, 1959 in Manchester ) is a British writer .

Life

Winterson was born in Manchester and was adopted by a Pentecostal couple who wanted Jeanette to be a missionary. She grew up in Accrington ( Lancashire ). When she was 16, she moved out of her home on the grounds that she was having a lesbian affair. She studied English at St Catherine's College , Oxford . After moving to London , she wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , which she published at the age of 26. In 1985 Winterson won the prestigious Whitbread Prize for a first work. In 1990 she edited it for the BBC television series of the same name , where it won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best drama . In 1987 she received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . Winterson's other novels won various literary prizes in the years that followed.

In her novel Das Powerbook (2001), cyberspace is at the center of a triangular story, whereby the author connects the current plot in virtual space with Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando . In the novel Why happy instead of just normal? she followed her childhood and then jumps into a phase twenty-five years later.

In addition to her writing activities, Winterson runs an organic grocery store in East London .

She had a relationship with scientist Peggy Reynolds for twelve years . Another partner in life and her literary agent was Pat Kavanagh .

Awards

Winterson was named Officer in 2006 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2018 .

Works

  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Novel. 1985
  • Boating for beginners . Novel. 1985
  • Fit For The Future - The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well . 1986
  • The Passion (novel), Bloomsbury, London 1987
  • Sexing the Cherry. Novel. 1989
    • The sex of the cherry. Translated by Brigitte Walitzek. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-596-11634-1
  • Written on the body . Novel. 1992
    • Written on the body. Translated by Stephanie Schaffer-de Vries. Fischer, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-10-092210-7
  • Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd . Novel. 1994
  • Art objects . Essays. 1995
  • Good symmetries . Novel. 1997
    • The sister universe. Translated by Brigitte Walitzek. Berlin Verlag, 1997 ISBN 3-8270-0041-6
  • The World and Other Places . Stories. 1998
    • In this world and elsewhere. Translated by Monika Schmalz. Berlin Verlag, 2000 ISBN 3-8270-0042-4
  • The Powerbook . Novel. 2000
  • The King of Capri. Youth novel, with Jane Ray . 2003
  • Lighthousekeeping . Novel. 2004
    • The lighthouse keeper. Translated by Monika Schmalz. Berlin Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-8270-0575-2
  • Weight . 2005
  • Tanglewreck . Youth novel. 2006
    • Tanglewreck: The House at the End of Time. Translated by Monika Schmalz. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-8270-5174-6
  • The Stone Gods. Novel. 2007
  • The Lion, The Unicorn and Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story . Narrative. 2009
    • The lion, the unicorn and me. A Christmas Story. Translated by Monika Schmalz. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-8270-5411-1
  • The Battle of the Sun . Youth novel. 2010
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Autobiographical novel. 2012
    • Why happy instead of simply normal? Translated by Monika Schmalz. Carl Hanser, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-446-24149-7
  • Christmas Days. 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days. 2016
    • Wonderful white days. Twelve winter stories. Translated by Regina Rawlinson. Wunderraum, Munich 2017. Grant for future translation projects from the City of Munich for this translation, 2017

literature

  • Bernadette Conrad: The Authority of the Subjective . Interview. In: NZZ , June 22, 2013, p. 25

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmalz in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
personal data
SURNAME Winterson, Jeanette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester