Contemporary British Writers Jeanette Winterson and Susie Orbach
Discussion, reading, Q&A with media and readers

One of the best and most discussed contemporary British writer Jeanette Winterson is going to China with British psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach for the first time to have a face-to-face communication with their readers.

Shanghai

Jeanette Winterson and Her Novel World: discussion, reading, Q&A with media and readers
Host: Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General
           Shanghai Book Fair
Date: 19:00-21:00 Sunday, 21 August 2011
Venue: The West Sun Studio of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre

Women and Writing
Host: Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General
           Shanghai Insight Communication Co., Ltd
           Li New Writing
British guest: Jeanette Winterson & Susie Orbach
Date: 19:00 - 21:00 Monday, 22 August 2011
Venue: Minsheng Art Museum

Dalian

Women and Writing
Host: Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy
British guest:  Jeanette Winterson & Susie Orbach
Date: 16:00-18:00 Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Venue: Echo Book Bar

Beijing

Women and Writing
Host: Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy
British guest: Jeanette Winterson & Susie Orbach
Chinese guest: Li Yinhe
Date: 15:00 - 17:00 Sunday, 28 August 2011
Venue: Onewaystreet Library

About Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body, a book of short stories, The World and Other Places, a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children’s books, screenplays and journalism. Her eagerly anticipated memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal is being published by Jonathan Cape in October of this year. In 2006 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature and her writing has won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Prix d’argent at Cannes Film Festival.

About Susie Orbach Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. With Luise Eichenbaum she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976 and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Her other books include Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982), What's Really Going on Here (1993), Towards Emotional Literacy (1999), The Impossibility of Sex (1999) and Susie Orbach on Eating (2001). With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Account (Penguin, 1982), What Do Women Want: Exploding the Myth of Dependency (1983) and Bittersweet: Love, Competition and Envy in Women's Relationships (1986).