Alvydas Slepikas is a Lithuanian writer, moving between the worlds of literature, theatre, film and television. He is a poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. His novel Mano vardas – Marytė (In the Shadow of Wolves) – a story about the so-called ‘wolf children’ – became the most read novel of 2012 in Lithuania and has gone through 11 reprints. It is one of the most translated Lithuanian books of recent times and has now been published in several other European and Arabic languages. His writings are characterised by a lively visual style and a subtle intertwining of the past and present.