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Christine Leunens

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Contact:
Website: ​christineleunens.com/
Email: [email protected]
Christine Leunens is a novelist of Belgian and Italian origin, who has lived and travelled around Europe, North America, Africa and Asia before coming to New Zealand with her family, for all of whom Nelson is now home.

Christine’s novels Primordial Soup, Caging Skies and A Can of Sunshine have been translated in seventeen languages. She has received praise in the international press and A Can of Sunshine was selected as one of the ‘Best Books of the Year 2013’ by the NZ Herald.
 
Caging Skies has been adapted by Desirée Gezenstvey to theatre and premiered at Wellington’s Circa Theatre in 2017, and was the major inspiration for Taika’s Waititi’s Oscar-winning film, Jojo Rabbit, in 2020.

Christine has just finished a new novel, In Amber’s Wake, and written the screenplay adaptation, which has been taken for production.

Titles

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Novel
1st published 2022
Bateman Books
​Available from: Amazon and
Unity Books
Novel
1st published: 2020
Dedalus Books
Available from: Amazon
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Novel
1st published: 2019
Penguin
Available from: Amazon
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  • Authors
    • Authors A-G >
      • Jeanette Aplin
      • Garrick Batten
      • Megan Bell
      • Robyn Bennett
      • Patricia Berwick
      • Martin Bird
      • David Briggs
      • Ali Brown
      • Suzanne Clark
      • Rachel Craw
      • Marion Day
      • John Du Four
      • Colin Fisher
      • Phil Garnock-Jones
      • Bruce Gilkison
      • Jeanette Goode
      • Elizabeth Gould
    • Authors H-P >
      • Carolyn Hawes
      • Rebecca Hayter
      • Pam Henson
      • Wix Hutton
      • Linda Jane Keegan
      • Julie Kennedy
      • Liz Mahoney
      • Jan Marsh
      • Anne Marshman
      • Paul Maunder
      • Carol Maxwell
      • Rosalina-Ludmila McCarthy
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Phil Morrell
      • Tania Norfolk
      • Trish Palmer
    • Authors Q-Z >
      • ​Tarmo Rajasaari
      • Shannon Savvas
      • Annabel Schuler
      • Wendy Scott
      • Kate Shaw
      • Susan Smith
      • Charlotte Squire
      • Karen Stade
      • Emma Stevens
      • Chris Stuart
      • W F Stubbs
      • Fiona Summerfield
      • Kerry Sunderland
      • Sylvan Thomson
      • Chris Tait
      • Colin Taylor
      • Lucy Wilson
      • Iona Winter
      • Angela Woolf
  • Books
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    • Art, Crafts & Hobbies
    • Biography
    • Children
    • Fantasy
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