Gillian Slovo
 Gillian Slovo     (novelist, playwright, memoirist) | |
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Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is one of three daughters of anti-apartheid activists Ruth First and Joe Slovo and is a novelist, playwright and memoirist. Her courtroom drama Red Dust (2000) explored the meanings and effects of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.[1]
Novels
Gillian Slovo's latest novel, Ten Days, begins in London on a run down council estate where a young black man is accidentally killed whilst being restrained by police. In the days that follow, a peaceful demonstration turns into violent protest and the resulting riots begin to spread countrywide. On BBC Radio 4's Frontrow of 2 March 2016, Gillian Slovo discussed her book, and revealed how it was inspired by interviews she did with police, politicians, rioters and residents involved in the riots of 2011.[2]
- Morbid Symptoms (1984)
- Death by Analysis (1986)
- Death Comes Staccato (1987)
- Ties of Blood (1989)
- The Betrayal (1991)
- Looking for Thelma (1991)
- Façade (1993)
- Catnap (1994)
- Close Call (1995)
- Red Dust (2000)
- Ice Road (2004)
- Black Orchids (2008)
- An Honourable Man (2012)
- Ten Days (2016)
Plays
- Guantanamo : Honour Bound to Defend Freedom (with Victoria Brittain) (2005)
- The Riots (2011 play)[3]
Memoirs
Gillian Slovo's 1997 memoir, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, is an account of her childhood in South Africa and her relationship with her parents Joe Slovo and Ruth First — both famous South Africans and major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, which culminated in her mother's assassination in a letter bomb attack by Craig Williamson in 1982. A family memoir in the form of a feature film, A World Apart (1988), was written by her sister Shawn Slovo and starred Barbara Hershey.
English PEN Presidency
Slovo was the 25th president of the English Centre of International PEN, the worldwide writers fellowship. In 2012 she took part in a PEN International delegation to Mexico to protest the killing of journalists in that country, alongside presidents of other PEN Centres and internationally prominent writers.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "Guardian profile: Gillian Slovo"
- ↑ "Ten Days by Gillian Slovo"
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- ↑ Liz Bury (3 December 2013). "Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2014.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
External links
- Contemporary Writers: Gillian Slovo
- Gillian Slovo discusses Red Dust on the BBC World Book Club
- Audio/Video recording of a talk by Gillian Slovo on "Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theatre" at the University of Chicago.
- Interview of Gillian Slovo by Anthony Clare on BBC Radio 4's In the Psychiatrist's Chair (originally broadcast August 1997), based in part on her biography
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