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who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, which culminated in her mother's assassination by South African forces in 1982.
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to protest against the killing of journalists in that country, alongside presidents of other PEN Centres and internationally prominent writers.
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of a talk by Gillian Slovo on "Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater" at the University of Chicago.
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In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Slovo signed a letter endorsing the
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Slovo's novels were at first predominantly of the crime and
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Slovo was the 25th president of the English Centre of
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The novel incorporates real events (the death of 82: 68: 60: 42: 23: 890:Blackwell, Geoff; Hobday, Ruth (31 October 2017). 624:"'In Mexico, Reporters are Hunted Like Rabbits'" 417:Guantanamo : Honor Bound to Defend Freedom 242:A family memoir in the form of a feature film, 1019:South African women dramatists and playwrights 779:"Burn Britain Burn: Gillian Slovo's The Riots" 725:"An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo – review" 643:"Letters | Vote for hope and a decent future" 8: 211:, which was staged internationally in 2004. 598:"Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom" 114:Gillian Slovo was born on 15 March 1952 in 984:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 835:"Whitbread novel prize is double for Levy" 31: 20: 442:Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country 221:Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country 209:Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom 1004:South African dramatists and playwrights 806:"Andrea Levy: Notes from a small island" 999:Presidents of the English Centre of PEN 478: 578:from the original on 24 September 2020 536:"Gillian Slovo Biography – eNotes.com" 530: 528: 510: 862:"Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award" 16:South African-born writer (born 1952) 7: 924:Contemporary Writers: Gillian Slovo 572:Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre 161:Truth and Reconciliation Commission 622:Slovo, Gillian (3 February 2012), 600:. 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Index

Slovo in 2011
Joe Slovo
Ruth First
Shawn Slovo
Robyn Slovo
Golden PEN Award
Johannesburg
Joe Slovo
Ruth First
Jewish
University of Manchester
history and philosophy of science
thriller genres
Red Dust
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
a film of the same name
2004
Tom Hooper
2004
Ice Road
Orange Prize for Fiction
Sergey Kirov
Siege of Leningrad
Victoria Brittain
Joe Slovo
Ruth First
South African Communist Party
anti-apartheid struggle
A World Apart
Shawn Slovo

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