Jeanette Winterson

Katharine Cox

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 27 Aug 1959
Activity 1985-ongoing

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Cultural Identities

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer
Children's/Young Adult writer
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter

Resources

British novelist Jeanette Winterson has won international acclaim for her innovative and lyrical writing that directly and explicitly challenges the conventional novel form. Occasionally, her outspoken commentaries about her writing and sexuality have caused her image and personal life to overshadow her fictions. She remains an influential post-modern British author whose work can be compared to that of Angela Carter, Michèle Roberts, Peter Ackroyd and Salman Rushdie. Winterson’s novels are always experimental, straining and stretching language and genre into new forms, frequently with a poetic texture. Theoretically aware, her novels express the fluidity of time, history, love and identity, variously deploying quantum physics, …

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Citation: Cox, Katharine. "Jeanette Winterson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 August 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4764, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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