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    Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born writer who lives in the UK. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award. Gillian Slovo was...
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    Yossel Mashel Slovo (23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995), commonly known as Joe Slovo, was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system...
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  • Greatest Fight. Slovo lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer...
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  • novelist Gillian Slovo and screenwriter Shawn Slovo. Dead Proud from Second Wave Young Women Playwrights – EDITED BY ANN CONSIDINE & ROBYN SLOVO "Jews in...
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  • written by Troy Kennedy Martin, is based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo. The film was predominantly shot on location in South Africa, specifically...
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  • The Riots is a play created by Gillian Slovo from spoken evidence, which explains and evaluates the events that took place during the 2011 England riots...
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    Audio". The British Library blogs. Susan Abulhawa in conversation with Gillian Slovo – at the Shubbak Literature Festival, The British Library, 2017, Audio...
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  • Ice Road (novel) (category Novels by Gillian Slovo)
    Ice Road is a novel written by South African-born Gillian Slovo. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Set in Leningrad in the 1930s, the...
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  • Gillian Sheen (1928–2021), British fencer Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (born 1940), British Conservative politician Gillian Slovo...
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    (1923) in Sudan during Mahdi's rebellion, which is integral to the plot. Gillian Slovo based her novel An Honourable Man (2012) on the established narrative...
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    Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom written by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo from spoken evidence, which transferred to the New Ambassadors Theatre...
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    Ruth First (category Slovo family)
    married Joe Slovo, a South African anti-apartheid activist and Communist, with whom she had three daughters, Shawn, Gillian and Robyn. Together, Slovo and First...
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    School of Music and Drama in 2011. In 2011, Ben-Adir performed in Gillian Slovo's play The Riots at the Tricycle Theatre. In 2012, he played Demetrius...
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    Serote (born 1944) Ishtiyaq Shukri (born 1968) Barney Simon (1932-1995) Gillian Slovo (born 1952) Adam Small (1936–2016) Russell Smith (born 1963), raised...
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  • Ruth Helen Simpson – Hey Yeah Right Get A Life Michael Slade – Hangman Gillian Slovo – Red Dust Zadie Smith – White Teeth Muriel Spark – Aiding and Abetting...
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  • Masked, Eliam Kraiem's Sixteen Wounded, and Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. He also performed alongside...
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  • Atwood Oryx and Crake Finalist Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire Finalist Gillian Slovo Ice Road Finalist Rose Tremain The Colour Finalist 2005 Lionel Shriver...
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    feature film based on the novel of the same title by South African writer Gillian Slovo. With Hilary Swank, Jamie Bartlett and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Zulu Love Letter...
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  • first novel was published. The initial panel of judges was chaired by Gillian Slovo, and comprised Sanjeev Bhaskar, Archie Bland (son of Sir Christopher)...
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  • Red Dust (novel) (category Novels by Gillian Slovo)
    Red Dust is a 2000 novel written by South African-born Gillian Slovo that is structured around the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
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  • Mr. Begg "with palpable anger and sorrow" in Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's play Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at the Culture Project...
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    2015 Lemn Sissay 2022 Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton) 1978 Gillian Slovo 2013 Dorothea Smartt 2019 Ali Smith 2007 Cherry Smyth 2022 Deborah Smith...
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    Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn presented a piece of new writing, The Riots by Gillian Slovo, which looked into the events over those days in August and the thoughts...
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    Oestreicher Susie Orbach Harold Pinter Michael Rosen Alexei Sayle Lynne Segal Gillian Slovo Janet Suzman Michelene Wandor European Jews for a Just Peace Jewish...
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  • Summer 2023, Shaeffer was cast in Grenfell, author and playwright Gillian Slovo's verbatim theatre project with the community and survivors about the...
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  • and writer United States 2023 Cat Stevens Singer United States 2022 Gillian Slovo Writer South Africa 2015 George Smith Biologist United States 2019 Patti...
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  • Hooper directed the film. The film, based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo sees a New York lawyer Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank) return to the place...
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  • humour", and "a liberating anthem for hitherto doomed anglophone youth". Gillian Slovo wrote that the song is very familiar with white South Africans who grew...
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  • Speech". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2 February 2016. Slovo, Gillian (12 January 2012). "Gillian Slovo's top 10 South African books". The Guardian. Archived...
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  • Slonczewski (born 1956, US, f) Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976, Poland, p/nf/d) Gillian Slovo (born 1952, S Africa/England, f/d/nf) Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1949, Poland...
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