Gillian Slovo

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Gillian Slovo (* 1952 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a British writer , journalist and film producer .

Life

As the daughter of the two white anti- apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First , she has lived in England since she was twelve . She has written several novels , crime novels , and plays. Her memories of her tumultuous childhood, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country (Little Brown, 1997), were a bestseller in England. Slovo works and lives with her family in London .

Her novels are mostly to be assigned to the thriller and crime genre. This also includes a series about the detective Kate Baeier. In 2000 she wrote the novel Red Dust , which was filmed in 2004 by Tom Hooper with two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank , Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jamie Bartlett as Red Dust - The Truth Leads to Freedom . Her 2004 work, Ice Road , was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction .

Works

  • Morbid Symptoms , 1984
    • No chance: a crime novel . Translation Heipe Weiss, Dieter Bross. Editions Trèves, Trier 1984
  • Death by Analysis , 1986
    • Death of a therapist: a Kate Baeier crime thriller . Translation of Thomas Stegers. Econ, Düsseldorf 1994
  • Death Comes Staccato , 1987
    • Deadly Staccato: a Kate Baeier thriller . Translation of Thomas Stegers. Econ, Düsseldorf 1995
  • Ties of Blood , 1989
  • The Betrayal , 1991
  • Looking for Thelma , 1991
  • Façade , 1993
  • Catnap , 1994
    • Catnapping: novel . Translation by Renate Gotthardt. Heyne, Munich 1996
  • Close Call , 1995
  • Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country , 1997 (autobiography)
  • Red Dust , 2000
    • Red dust: novel . Translation of Uda Strätling. Kunstmann, Munich 2001
  • Ice Road , 2004
  • Ten Days , 2015
Spectacles
  • Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom , 2005
  • Another World , 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Slovo, Gillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer, journalist and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg