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.
Michelle Marie Harrison (born 21 December 1979) is a British writer whose debut novel, "The 13 Treasures", won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and has been sold for translation in 17 countries.
 "The 13 Treasures" is the first part of a trilogy, which has continued with "The 13 Curses" and "The 13 Secrets".
 Her fourth novel and first book for young adults is "Unrest", a ghost story published by Simon & Schuster in 2012.
Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (] ; July 19, 1910, Quemchi, Chiloé Province – August 5, 2002) was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages.
 Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film.
Linda Crockett (born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers.
 Linda Crockett published over a dozen books which were translated into as many languages, under the pen names Linda Crockett, Linda Crockett Gray, Linda C. Gray, and Christina Crockett.
 First published by Playboy Paperbacks in 1979, Linda went on to write four Harlequin "Superromances", making history by introducing the first disabled leading man ever to appear in a Harlequin romance novel.
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.
Kevin Maher (born 1972) is an Irish writer.
 He is primarily known as a journalist and film critic, whose work has appeared in "The Times", "The Guardian", "The Independent", and "The Observer".
 His debut novel, "The Fields", was published by Reagan Arthur Books in 2013.
 It was listed in the 2013 Waterstones 11, a literary book prize aimed at promoting debut authors.
Andrew Michael Hurley (born 1975) is a British writer whose debut novel, The Loney, was published in a limited edition of 278 copies on 1 October 2014 by Tartarus Press and was published under Hodder and Stoughton's John Murray imprint in 2015 (ISBN  ).
 He was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's "Open Book" programme "British Gothic" in October 2015.
Karim Miské (born 1964, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire ) is a Mauritanian-French documentary film maker and writer whose debut novel "Arab Jazz" (2015), a work of crime fiction, wa awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Michael Palmer (born 1945) is an English philosopher, whose work has been translated into many languages.
 His primary field of interest is The Philosophy of Religion.
 More recently, however, his work has concentrated on the philosophy of atheism, culminating in his authorship of "The Atheist's Creed" (2010), "The Atheist's Primer" (2012) and the projected "Atheism for Beginners" (due 2013).
Carl Frederick Buechner (born July 11, 1926) is an American writer and theologian.
 He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books.
 His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades.
 Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world.
 He is best known for his works "A Long Day's Dying" (his first work, published in 1950); "The Book of Bebb", a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979; "Godric", a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981; "Brendan", a second novel narrating a saint's life, published in 1987; "Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner" (1992); and his autobiographical works "The Sacred Journey" (1982), "Now and Then" (1983), "Telling Secrets" (1991), and "The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found" (1999).
 He has been called "Major talent" and "...a very good writer indeed" by "the New York Times", and "one of our most original storytellers" by USA Today.
 Annie Dillard (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek") says: "Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers."

Question: Between Shades of Gray is the debut novel by a writer whose work in published in how many languages?
Answer: thirty