Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a British novelist whose bold, experimental fiction has made her one of the most distinctive and celebrated voices in contemporary literature. Born in Manchester in 1959, she was adopted by Pentecostal parents and her unconventional upbringing inspired her debut novel. She was awarded a CBE and an OBE. 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next is a collection of essays exploring artificial intelligence, technology, and what it means to be human in an age of machines. Winterson's fiction includes Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Whitbread Prize), Written on the Body, The Passion, and Frankissstein. Her writing is celebrated for its poetic prose, its intellectual ambition, and its refusal to conform to any convention. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers fiercely original writing from one of English literature's most inventive voices — fiction and non-fiction that challenges everything you thought you knew.