---
name: "Jeanette Winterson"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 August 1959"
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updated: "2026-10-07T11:24:18.325285+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jeanette Winterson

## Identity

Jeanette Winterson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeanette-winterson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeanette-winterson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0936019
- **TMDB ID:** 1226309
- **Wikidata ID:** Q233584
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Winterson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226309

Writer. Born 27 August 1959 in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 August 1959, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
- **BAFTA Television Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Winterson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226309

## Biography

Jeanette Winterson is an English writer. She was born on 27 August 1959 in Manchester and educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Her first novel, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit*, was published in 1985 and won the Whitbread Prize for best first novel. Winterson wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of the novel, which aired in 1990 and won a BAFTA Award for Best Drama.

She has received an OBE and a CBE for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit* (1990), Fi1m 86, Writer, Novel — [page](https://film.one/tv/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Inner Polar Bear* (2022), Writer
- *Tough Girls Don't Dream* (2010), Writer
- *Great Moments in Aviation* (1994), Writer
- *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit* (1990), series, Novel, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit.md)
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Sixth Chancellor of the University of Salford Jeanette Winterson Installation of Chancellor Professor Jackie Kay MBE - University of Salford, Peel Hall Sixth Ch (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/6776347/gallery-9b896aace6f1.jpg) Sixth Chancellor of the University of Salford Jeanette Winterson Installation of Chancellor Professor Jackie Kay MBE - University of Salford, Peel Hall Sixth Ch (2015) — University of Salford Press Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Installation_of_Chancellor_Professor_Jackie_Kay_MBE_-_University_of_Salford%2C_Peel_Hall_%2817136470459%29_%28cropped_2%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jeanette Winterson](https://film.one/media/person/6776347/gallery-ca6c04e61806.jpg) Jeanette Winterson — Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Jeanette_Winterson_04.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### BAFTA Television Awards — 1 won

- 1991: Best Drama Series (won), for *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit*

### Other awards — 5 won, 7 nominated

- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2020: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominated), for *Frankissstein*
- Booker Prize 2019: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Frankissstein*
- BBC 100 Women 2016: BBC 100 Women (won)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2016: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 2014: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (nominated), for *The Daylight Gate*
- Carnegie Medal 2011: Carnegie Medal (nominated)
- Carnegie Medal 2007: Carnegie Medal (nominated)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 2005: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (nominated)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 2000: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (nominated)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 1994: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (won)
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 1993: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (won)
- E. M. Forster Award 1990: E. M. Forster Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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