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Mon 07 Jul 2007Whitbread author to address fansAward-winning author Jeanette Winterson is proving the top draw at the 10th West Cork Literary Festival, which starts today in Bantry.everal hundred literary fans are expected to attend a "performance" by the Whitbread prize-winning writer of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, according to festival co-organiser Clem Cairns. "She's going to do a kind of talk, but I hear it's more like a performance," said Mr Cairns.