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Christine Leunens is born in Hartford, Connecticut to an Italian mother and a Belgian father. She holds a Master of Liberal Arts in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. She has published three novels and has been translated into eighteen languages. In 2012 she was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by Victoria University and her novel A Can of Sunshine was selected as 'Best Books of the Year 2013' by the NZ Herald. Her novel Caging Skies, has been adapted to theatre in 2017. Taika Waititi's film adaptation, JoJo Rabbit, has been released in October 2019 by Fox Searchlight. The French translation of Caging Skies was nominated for the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Prix du Roman FNAC. She currently lives in New Zealand with her family.
