{"id":13729,"date":"2019-08-16T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cityofliterature.nl\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=13729"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:24:25","slug":"ilfu-book-talk-with-jeanette-winterson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.cityofliterature.nl\/en\/evenement\/ilfu-book-talk-with-jeanette-winterson\/","title":{"rendered":"ILFU Book Talk with Jeanette Winterson"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday evening 4 November the British author Jeanette Winterson will speak about her latest novel Frankisstein <\/i>in the fifth ILFU Book Talk of this year. Frankisstein<\/em> was recently selected for the Man Booker Prize 2019 longlist.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeanette Winterson’s (1959) novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit<\/em> was her highly successful debut, described as ‘delicate, quirky, funny and intricate’ (Washington Post<\/em>). For this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of a lesbian girl growing up in an English Pentecostal community she won the Whitbread Prize for best debut. Winterson subsequently adapted the novel into a BBC television drama which won a BAFTA award for Best Drama. In 1987 her novel The Passion<\/em> was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. For her following book Sexing The Cherry<\/em> (1989) she received the E.M. Forster Award. She also received an OBE for\u00a0her services to literature in 2006.<\/p>\n Jeanette Winterson was in Utrecht before for the Belle van Zuylen lecture. This lecture has been organised since 2005 to keep the literary legacy of Utrecht’s internationally most renowned writer Belle van Zuylen alive and a source of inspiration.<\/p>\n