Ruta Sepetys

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Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. She is a #1 New York Times bestseller and international bestseller, winner of the Carnegie Medal, and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament and NATO. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages.

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