作者簡介
珍奈.溫特森 Jeanette Winterson
英國當代最好的小說家之一,2006 年因其文學成就獲頒大英帝國勳章(OBE)。著有十部小說,也寫童書、非文學作品和劇本,並為《衛報》撰稿。遭親生父母遺棄的她,由信仰虔誠的溫特森夫婦收養,成長於曼徹斯特。養父母盼望她從事傳教工作,她卻愛上了一個女孩而引起家庭風暴,因此離家自立。1985 年她寫下具自傳色彩的處女作《柳橙不是唯一的水果》,一舉奪下英國惠特布雷小說獎,並親自改編為
BBC 影集,囊括許多國際大獎。2013 年,她勇敢直視成長歷程,又寫下暢銷獲獎回憶錄《正常就好,何必快樂?》。BBC 舉辦的「女性分水嶺小說」票選活動中,她同時以三部作品獲得提名,是入選作品最多的當代小說家。作風大膽、離經叛道的溫特森,如今已是英國文壇公認極具代表性的聲音。
她在「挑戰莎士比亞」計畫選定改寫《冬天的故事》,此劇主角正是一名遭遺棄的小女嬰。溫特森形容,每個人心中都保有護身符一般的故事,它陪伴我們,也帶領著我們。她筆下的許多作品,本質上都是《冬天的故事》,只是以不同的樣貌呈現。她以刻骨銘心的生命歷程映照莎翁文字,寫下了《時間的空隙》。
Jeanette Winterson has written 10 novels, children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays, and writes regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in
Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and twenty-seven years later in her bestselling memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be
Normal? The Winter’s Tale tells the story of Perdita, the abandoned child. ‘All of us have talismanic texts that we have carried around and that carry us around. I have worked with The Winter’s
Tale in many disguises for many years,’ Jeanette says of the play. The result is The Gap of Time, her cover version.