I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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Birth: | 27th August, 1959 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England. She is an English novelist. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. She has written several novels include: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Costa First Novel Award), The Passion (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body (Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction), Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries, Lighthousekeeping, and The Stone Gods.
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