NZSA Top of the South Branch
  • Welcome!
  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Funding for NZSA Workshops
    • Writing Groups
    • Support Local
  • News/Events
    • Newsletters
    • 2023 Te Tauihu Awards Winning Entries
  • MEMBER PROFILES
  • WRITERS' TRAIL
    • Nelson/Tasman >
      • Cliff Fell/Mapua Waterfront
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Karen Stade
      • Margaret Mahy/Crinkum-Crankum Tree
      • Maurice Gee/Maitai River
      • Maurice Gee/Botanical Reserve
    • Marlborough >
      • Eileen Duggan/Tuamarina
      • Katherine Mansfield/Koromiko
      • Katherine Mansfield/Anakiwa
      • Ernest Berry/Blenheim
      • Renwick Museum & Watson Memorial Library
      • Taylor River Writers' Walk
    • West Coast >
      • Bill Pearson/Greymouth
      • Jenny Pattrick/Denniston
  • LOCAL SERVICES FOR WRITERS
    • Beta Readers
    • Book Design
    • Editing, Proofreading
    • E-publishing
    • Illustration/ Photography
    • Manuscript Assessment
    • Promotion, Publicity, Distribution
    • Self-publishing & Printing
    • Website Design
  • JOIN The NZ Society of Authors
  • CONTACT
    • Horizons 5 Order

Member Profile

The Top of the South Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors

Christine Leunens

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.

 



 
 

 


Picture
   WEBSITE
   
 
 LINKS TO BOOKS
   Primordial Soup
   Caging Skies 
   A Can of Sunshine

 
   Listen here to Christine's interview on the Top Writers
   Radio Show on Fresh FM in July 2016.

 
 

  • Welcome!
  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Funding for NZSA Workshops
    • Writing Groups
    • Support Local
  • News/Events
    • Newsletters
    • 2023 Te Tauihu Awards Winning Entries
  • MEMBER PROFILES
  • WRITERS' TRAIL
    • Nelson/Tasman >
      • Cliff Fell/Mapua Waterfront
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Karen Stade
      • Margaret Mahy/Crinkum-Crankum Tree
      • Maurice Gee/Maitai River
      • Maurice Gee/Botanical Reserve
    • Marlborough >
      • Eileen Duggan/Tuamarina
      • Katherine Mansfield/Koromiko
      • Katherine Mansfield/Anakiwa
      • Ernest Berry/Blenheim
      • Renwick Museum & Watson Memorial Library
      • Taylor River Writers' Walk
    • West Coast >
      • Bill Pearson/Greymouth
      • Jenny Pattrick/Denniston
  • LOCAL SERVICES FOR WRITERS
    • Beta Readers
    • Book Design
    • Editing, Proofreading
    • E-publishing
    • Illustration/ Photography
    • Manuscript Assessment
    • Promotion, Publicity, Distribution
    • Self-publishing & Printing
    • Website Design
  • JOIN The NZ Society of Authors
  • CONTACT
    • Horizons 5 Order