珍妮特•溫特森（Jeanette Winterson）

當代最好也是最有爭議性的作傢之一。

1959年，生於英格蘭的曼徹斯特。自小由堅信宗教的夫婦收養。當時傢中有六本書，其中《亞瑟王之死》激發瞭溫特森對書本和寫作的渴望。

1978年，溫特森與一個女孩相愛，離傢齣走。她在殯儀館、精神病院等地留宿打工，但仍以全A的成績考進牛津大學英語係。

1985年，處女作《橘子不是唯一的水果》齣版，榮獲惠特布萊德首作奬。由她親自改編的同名BBC劇集也大獲好評，獲得各項國際大奬。

代錶作品有：《激情》、《櫻桃的性彆》、《寫在身體上》、《藝術與謊言》、《蘋果筆記本》、《守望燈塔》等。

2006年，溫特森以其傑齣的文學成就被授予英帝國勛章（OBE）。

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作傢，譯者。著有長篇《六翼天使》，中篇《同居筆記》、《事後》、《自戀時段》、《一隻黑貓的自閉癥》，散文集《夜在窗外》、《慌城孤讀》，同時譯有《迷失男女》、《美與暴烈——三島由紀夫傳記》、《黑暗塔VII》、《杜馬島》、《失落的秘符》（閤譯）等。

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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.

Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel is one of the most beautifully written story of a middle-class girl struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, creativity, passion vs. her family/society's inflexible "formed opinions". The story of the persecution of a girl because of her sexual preference (in this case, lesbianism) is not new. It's how Ms. Winterson presents her story. Fresh. Alive. Witty. Funny. Heartbreaking at times. Imaginative. Almost like you were holding a piece of someone's soul in your hands rather than merely a book. I noticed that one reviewer mentioned that the book's sexual nature is vulgar. I do not find this so. Even if it is, so what? Life is vulgar. Only those fond of sweeping the dirt under the carpet so that it stays out of sight (or those who drive lesbian girls from their house/church and pretend they don't exist) will disagree with the innate vulgarity of all life. This book is the antidote for that kind of sanitized thinking. This book exposes that sanitized Christian middle-class thinking is weird, almost alien when observed sanely by a third party standing on the outside. This book celebrates life. Read it.