Personatge

Ruta Sepetys

Detroit (USA) 17-11-1967

Període d'activitat: Des de 2011 fins Encara activa

Classificació geogràfica: Amèrica > Estats Units

Moviments socio-culturals

Edat contemporània

Grups per àmbit de dedicació

Escriptores

Context de creació femenina

Ruta Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Born in Michigan, she was raised in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Ruta is passionate about the power of history and story to foster global dialogue and connectivity. She has been invited to present at NATO, the European Parliament, the U.S. Capitol, the Library of Congress, and Embassies worldwide. She was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation’s prestigious Bellagio Fellowship for her studies on human resilience. The New York Times Book Review declared, “Ruta Sepetys acts as champion of the interstitial people so often ignored—whole populations lost in the cracks of history.”

Other Lithuanian women writers who have written about the same topic were Dalia Grinkevičiūtė and Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė.

Ressenya

Ruta Sepetys (also known as Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is Number one in the New York Times, an international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal.

She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and 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 and is currently developing for film and television.

Justificacions

She is a novelist.
She is living in the USA, but her father was from Lithuania.
Her book 'Between shades of grey' is translated into 27 languages.

Biografia

She was born in a Lithuanian and American family in the USA. She is the youngest in a family of three children. Her father left Lithuania in 1940, then spent nine years in German refugee camps in 1949 and arrived in the United States.

Rūta Šepetys graduated from Hillsdale College, where she studied opera and international finance. Later continued her studies in France (Toulon and Nancy). After earning a master’s degree, she returned to the United States and worked in Los Angeles for thirteen years in the music business. She founded her firm, representing many famous American musicians, singers and bands. Moving to a slightly quieter life, she moved to the state of Tennessee. Now she lives in Nashville with her husband, Michael, near her parents and older brother. 2005 she visited her father's birthplace for the first time.

Rūta Šepetys became famous all over the world in her historical novel Between Shades of Gray, about the deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia during the Second World War. All the characters are fictional, but the conditions they had to survive are real, based on the deportees' stories. The book is intended for children and teens but is considered by many to be suitable for reading by people of all ages. The novel was listed in The New York Times bestseller and translated into 27 world languages. In Italy, the novel is on the books recommended for schools.

Ruta was bestowed the Cross of the Knight of the Order by the President of Lithuania for her contributions to education and memory preservation. She was recently honoured with a postage stamp containing her image. She is incredibly proud to be of Baltic heritage, even if she has a name no one can pronounce.

Obres

Between Shades of Grey (2011)
Out of Essay (2013)
Salt to the Sea (2016)

Bibliografia

https://rutasepetys.com/

Enfocament Didàctic

Lithuanian Literature.