Jeanette Winterson

I can change the story because I am the story. Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps – a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative power of storytelling and a radical look at the future.

Written in Jeanette’s unique style, One Aladdin Two Lamps, cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal timeless questions and answers such as Who should we trust? What makes us happy? Is love the most important thing in the world?

In her guise as Aladdin – the orphan who changes his world – Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert.

This is a chance to hear one of Britain’s most pioneering writers share her vision of reading, rewriting, and radical hope.

Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her exceptional, bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. She has written thirteen novels for adults alongside two collections of short stories, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester.