Janet Winterson was born in 1959 in Lancashire, in the north-west of England. She gained fame in 1985 with her novel Fruit Ain't Just Oranges, which won the Whitbread Prize for her first novel. He was followed by the novels Rowing for Beginners, Passion, and How to Sex a Cherry, for which the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded the author the prestigious T.H. E. M. Forster. Fruit Isn't Just Oranges was successfully dramatized for BBC television, and Janet Winterson's books are now published in 15 languages. Illustrations: Jannth Wooley. Story from The World & Other Places