What is Christine Leunens?
[[File:Christine Leunens speaking at The Annual Humanitas Awards, 2020 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Leunens in 2020]] '''Christine Leunens''' (born 29 December 1964) is a [[New Zealand]]-[[Belgians|Belgian]] author. She wrote the novels ''Primordial Soup'' (1999), ''Caging Skies'' (2008) and ''A Can of Sunshine'' (2013). The movie ''[[Jojo Rabbit]]'' (2019), directed by [[Taika Waititi]], was based on ''Caging Skies''. Waititi won an [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]] for the movie.{{fact|date=October 2024}} Leunens was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], [[United States]]. Her mother is [[Italians|Italian]] and her father is Belgian. She's lived mostly in Europe and New Zealand. She is a citizen of both New Zealand and Belgium.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/leunens-christine/|publisher=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura|title=Leunens, Christine|access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> She is married and has three children.{{fact|date=October 2024}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat}} *{{Official|https://www.christineleunens.com/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leunens, Christine}} [[Category:1964 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Belgian novelists]] [[Category:New Zealand writers]] [[Category:Writers from Hartford, Connecticut]] {{authority control}} {{bio-stub}}