Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

She will begin a two-year stint at the university’s Centre for New Writing in October.

The writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit will teach a post graduate MA workshop, MA seminar and lecture to undergraduates.

She succeeds Colm Toibin, who completes his year-long tenure and Martin Amis who spent four years at the university.

See: BBC