Between Shades of Gray is the debut novel by a writer whose work in published in how many languages?
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Between Shades of Gray Between Shades of Gray, a New York Times Bestseller, is the debut novel of American novelist Ruta Sepetys. It follows the Stalinist repressions of the mid-20th century and follows the life of Lina as she is deported from her native Lithuania with her mother and younger brother and the journey they take to a labor-camp in Siberia. It was nominated for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and has been translated into more than 27 languages.
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Ruta Sepetys Ruta Sepetys or Rūta Šepetys (born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is a #1 "New York Times" bestseller, international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal.Sepetys is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at European Parliament. Her work is published in over fifty countries and thirty languages and is currently in development for two films.
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Andrew Weiner Andrew Weiner (born 17 June 1949) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in London, England and later emigrated to Canada. To date he has written three novels and over forty short stories. The third of his novels has so far been published only in France.
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Pedro Ugarte Pedro Ugarte Tamayo (born 15 January 1963) is a writer and columnist. He was born in Bilbao and studied law at the Universidad de Deusto. He now teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco. He has also worked with Radio Euskadi and contributed columns to the Basque edition of "El País". He has written many works of fiction, spanning novels and short stories. His debut novel "Los cuerpos de las nadadoras" was nominated for the Premio Herralde while his most recent novel "El país del dinero" won the Premio Logroño de Novela in 2011. His work has been translated into Italian, French, German and Polish.
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Jan van Steenbergen Johannes Hendrik "Jan" van Steenbergen (born June 3, 1970) is a Dutch linguist, journalist, translator and interpreter. He is known for being the author of several constructed languages, notably Interslavic and Wenedyk.
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Ursula Holden Ursula Holden (born 8 August 1921) is an English novelist, author of thirteen novels often inspired by her time spent in Ireland. Her first novel, "Endless Race", was published when she was 54.
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Erich Hackl Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably "Sara und Simón", bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists.
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Jani Virk Jani Virk (born 4 March 1962) is a Slovene writer, poet, translator and editor. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, novels and scripts and translates from German into Slovene.
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György Dragomán György Dragomán (born 10 September 1973) is a Hungarian author and literary translator. His best-known work, "The White King" (2005) has been translated to at least 28 languages.
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Tomi Ungerer Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (born 28 November 1931) is a French illustrator and a writer in three languages. He has published over 140 books ranging from much loved children's books to controversial adult work and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He is known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms.
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Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎ ‎ )‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be published. The first novel by an Iranian woman was her "Savushun" ("Mourners of Siyâvash", also known as "A Persian Requiem", 1966), which went on to become a bestseller. "Daneshvar's Playhouse", a collection of five stories and two autobiographical pieces, is the first volume of translated stories by an Iranian woman author. Being the wife of the famous iran writer Jalal al-Ahmad she had a profound influence on his writing, she wrote the book "the Dawn of Jalal" in memory of her husband. Simin was also a very good translator, of her translations we can name "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her last book is currently lost and was supposed to be the last book of her trilogy which started with "the lost island". Al-Ahmad and Daneshvar never had a child.
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Mikael Torfason Mikael Torfason is an Icelandic writer. He has written six novels, published in Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Lithuania. He has also written for film and theater. In 2002 he directed his first feature film and he has also been Editor-in-Chief of Iceland's biggest newspapers.
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Tom Arden David Rain (2 May 1961 – 15 December 2015), known by his pen name Tom Arden, was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. He was born in Australia. His main work is the five volume "Orokon" saga, as well as the novels "Shadow Black", "The Translation of Bastian Test" and the Doctor Who novella "Nightdreamers".
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Ashes in the Snow Ashes in the Snow is a World War II drama based on the best-seller "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys.
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Janet Paisley Janet Paisley (born 1948) is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright from Scotland writing in Scots and English. Her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Italian.
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Rob Thurman Robyn Thurman, writing under the name Rob Thurman, is a "New York Times" Best Selling American novelist. To date, she has written three series and two short stories, totaling 11 books, and has been published in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.
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Elizabeth Knox Elizabeth Fiona Knox, ONZM, (born 15 February 1959, in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels, three autobiographical novella, and a collection of essays. Her best known works are "The Vintner's Luck", which won several awards, has been published in nine languages, and has been made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro, and "The Dreamhunter Duet", a literary fantasy series for teen readers. Her most recent novel was "Mortal Fire", published in 2013, which has won several awards.
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Adam Fawer Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American novelist. "Improbable", his first novel, has been translated into eighteen languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, "Empathy", has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish. His third novel, "Oz", has been published in 2016 in Turkish only. Unlike the first two novels, it received generally negative reviews from critics and readers.
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Christoph Peters Christoph Peters (born 1966) is a German author of novels and short stories. His debut novel, "Stadt Land Fluss" was published in 1999, and won the 'aspekte' prize for the best German literary debut. It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, "The Fabric of Night" (Random House). Mr. Peters lives in Berlin. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2009.
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Miklós Vámos Miklós Vámos originally Tibor Vámos, (born 29 January 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer, novelist, screenwriter, translator and talkshow host, who has published 33 books.
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Anna Aguilar-Amat Anna Aguilar-Amat (full name: Anna Aguilar-Amat i Castillo; born 31 January 1962 in Barcelona) is a Catalan poet, translator, researcher and university professor in Terminology and Computational Linguistics. She writes primarily in Catalan (as a poet, she writes exclusively in Catalan, a language which she also uses for some of her essays and studies as well) but also has some work in Spanish (primarily essays and studies). She has a PHD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she now teaches Terminology applied to Translation at the Translation Faculty. She published five collections of poems and was awarded several awards for Catalan poetry. Her poetic work is present in several anthologies of Catalan poets and she has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, German and Slovenian. She was included in the "Anthology New European Poets" by Wayne Miller & Kevin Prufer, Minnesota 2008.
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J. L. Langley J. L. Langley is the pen name of an American writer of over a dozen gay romance novels, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Japanese and German.