Jeanette Winterson: A Thousand and One Ways to Tell Stories
By Charlotte Stace
Jeanette Winterson returns to the CCCB for “A thousand and one ways to tell stories”, a conversation about why we tell stories, and how imagination can be a form of resistance when life feels bleak or prescribed. She will talk with the journalist Jordi Nopca about her unique perspective on literature and her new book, One Aladdin, Two Lamps (2026).
Winterson is presented as a key voice in contemporary Anglo-Saxon literature and is best-known for championing the power of the written word and the radical possibilities of fiction. The event is tied to her new book One Aladdin, Two Lamps, which reworks One Thousand and One Nights - a nice fit for an evening focused on storytelling itself: the myths we inherit, the versions we retell, and what stories can still do for us now.
This talk also coincides with Winterson being made Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), which collaborates on the event.