The Lowry welcome renowned writer Jeanette Winterson for their annual LS Lowry Lecture, celebrating 25 years of the Salford landmark. Taking place on Saturday 26 April, guests can hear Winterson present her personal perspective on the theatre’s namesake, acclaimed artist L S Lowry.
It was 40 years ago that Jeanette Winterson published her first novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, which went on to become a modern classic. Since then, she has produced more than 20 works of fiction, and non-fiction, including memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?.
“Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester. Her birth mother was a factory machinist, making overcoats for Marks & Spencer in the days when Lancashire was still a textile giant. Jeanette was adopted and grew up in Accrington. Her father worked in a factory from the age of 14 until he was 65 and fought in the Second World War. As Winterson has said: ‘He was scarred, fit, misshapen, proud. He was a working man. Who was going to paint the likes of him in his machine-stamped life? … Lowry.’
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