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On my radar: Gabrielle Zevin’s cultural highlights

The novelist , whose appeared on many of 2022’s books of the year lists, was born in New York in 1977. She studied English at Harvard, where she met her partner, the film director Hans Canosa. Zevin wrote the screenplay for Canosa’s 2005 film, and the pair adapted two of Zevin’s novels for the screen, most recently . She is working on a film version of , which follows two childhood friends as they reunite in

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