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Born in Manchester , she was Adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington , Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford . After moving to London , her first novel, '' Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit '', was first published when she was twenty six years old. It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA for Best Drama. Jeanette Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Her stage adaptation of ''The Powerbook'' in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre , London. She also opened a shop, Verde's, in East London to sell organic food. She received an OBE in the 2006 Honours List . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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