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Christine Leunens (geboren am 29. Dezember 1964 in Hartford (Connecticut), Vereinigte Staaten) ist eine neuseeländisch - belgische Schriftstellerin. Sie ist die Autorin mehrerer Romane, darunter Caging Skies, der als Jojo Rabbit verfilmt wurde.
- 29. Dezember 1964
- neuseeländisch-belgische Schriftstellerin
- Hartford, Vereinigten Staaten
- Leunens, Christine
Christine Leunens (born 29 December 1964) is a New Zealand-Belgian novelist. She is the author of Primordial Soup, Caging Skies, A Can of Sunshine, and In Amber's Wake, which have been translated into twenty-five languages.
Christine Leunens was born in Hartford, Connecticut to an Italian mother and a Belgian father. As a teenager she moved to Paris, where she had a close relationship with her grand-father, Guillaume Leunens, the Flemish painter and sculptor.
Christine Leunens (née le 29 décembre 1964) est une écrivaine néo-zélandaise et belge. Elle est l’auteure de trois romans, qui ont été traduits en plus de quinze langues 1. Son deuxième roman, Le ciel en cage, a été adapté au cinéma par Taika Waititi, sous le titre Jojo Rabbit 2 .
Caging Skies. I was dumbfounded. Instead of a living, snarling, thrashing creature, all I found was an inoffensive sausage. Behind the sausage, dangled two meatballs, larger than Swedish meatballs yet smaller than stuffed tomatoes, inside a mitten of raw chicken skin.
“Christine Leunens’ novel Caging Skies begins in Austria at the time of its annexation to the German Reich. Narrator Johannes Betzler is [. . .] a boy who innocently embraces the Nazi dream. He becomes a member of the Hitler Youth but soon makes a devastating discovery: his parents are hiding Elsa, a young Jewish woman, behind a false wall ...
Christine Leunens has dual New Zealand and Belgian citizenship, and she currently lives and writes in Nelson. Born in the USA to an Italian mother and Belgian father, Leunens moved to Paris as a teenager where she worked as a photo model for leading fashion houses.
