Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Grey and Out of the Easy, receives the Lithuanian Cross of the Knight of the Order
Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Grey, and Out of the Easy, was awarded Lithuania’s Cross of the Knight of the Order by the president of Lithuania in a ceremony last month at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius.
The honor was bestowed on Sepetys in recognition for her novel Between Shades of Gray, which takes as its subject the tragic story of fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported from Lithuania to Siberia in 1941 with her mother and younger brother. Sepetys has toured internationally for three years, presenting the novel and associated history in dozens of countries. The President commended “her continued global work sharing the little-known history of Stalin’s ethnic cleansing in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.” Between Shades of Gray has been published in 43 countries and 26 languages.
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