Hernan Diaz He wasn’t at the wedding, but without him there probably wouldn’t have been a wedding. The Argentine writer based in New York and winner of the Pulitzer Prize is the involuntary responsible for Dua Lipa and the actor Callum Turner have fallen in love. The couple contracted a civil marriage last Saturday in Londonin an intimate ceremony with family and close friends, and plans to celebrate the religious wedding next weekend in Sicilyin a 17th century mansion facing the Tyrrhenian Sea with guests of the stature of Elton John, Mark Ronson and Charli XCX.
The story of how they came together has the texture of a romantic comedy. According to Lipa herself in a cover interview with the British edition of Voguethe first sighting of Turner occurred in the River Cafean exclusive London restaurant where he dined with his father. The decisive moment, however, came a year later in Los Angeleson the birthday of a mutual friend. “I saw him and thought, ‘Oh, there’s the handsome guy from the River Café.’ Then we sat nearby and he asked me what I was reading,” the singer said. The answer changed everything: I had just finished the first chapter of Fortunethe novel by Diazand Turner was going exactly the same way.
The literary coincidence opened a conversation that led to romance. Lipa later included the book among the recommendations of Service95his editorial platform with a reading club, and interviewed Díaz himself for the space—without the writer knowing, of course, that he had served as matchmaker for what would be his future marriage.
Hernan Diaz born in Buenos Aires in 1973, he grew up in Sweden and has lived in the United States for decades, where he teaches at Columbia University. Fortunehis second novel, won the Fiction Pulitzer in 2023 and was a global publishing phenomenon. Turner, for his part, has a high chance of becoming the next James Bond —as it turned out, she would have already confirmed it to close friends—, and Lipa herself anticipated that she would love to write the theme song for the film if that happens. The novel by an Argentinian, in the end, could end up being the origin of one of the most listened to soundtracks in the world.
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