Out of the Easy is Sepetys' second published novel. Although Between Shades of Gray was initially written for children and young adults, the book has been widely read by many worldwide and is considered a book for all ages. Sepetys is a writer of historical fiction. The novel is developed as a film, Ashes in the Snow. Her discussion with MEPs in Brussels centered on the novel, the history of totalitarianism in the Baltics, and the importance of historical fiction. In March 2013, Ruta became the first American author of young adult literature to give a presentation at European Parliament. Ruta states that the novel represents the 'extreme suffering and tremendous hope' displayed by the people of the Baltics.

The book is considered a roman à clef, with fictional characters wrapped around actual events and experiences. Her first novel, Between Shades of Gray, about a teenage girl deported from her native Lithuania to Siberian Gulag labor camps after the Soviet occupation in 1941, was critically acclaimed and translated into over 30 languages. She has been described as a 'seeker of lost stories' who hopes to give voice to those who weren't able to tell their story. Sepetys published her first novel in 2011 and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She is on the Board of Advisors for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University and is also a director of the Make a Noise Foundation, a national non-profit that raises money for music education. In 2002, Sepetys was featured in Rolling Stone magazine's 'Women in Rock' special issue as a woman driven to make a difference. In 1994, she launched Sepetys Entertainment Group, Inc., an entertainment management firm įollowing graduation, she moved to Los Angeles. While overseas, she studied at the Centre d’études Européennes in Toulon, France, and at the ICN Graduate Business School in Nancy, France. in International Finance from Hillsdale College. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently in development for film and television.īorn in Michigan, Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament and NATO.

As an author, she is a New York Times and international bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Josette Frank Award for Fiction. Ruta Sepetys ( Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction.

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