Rūta Šepetys | |
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Born | Ruta Sepetys November 19, 1967 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Education | Hillsdale College (BS) |
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Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. 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.
She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament[1] and NATO. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently in development for film and television.