{"id":1950,"date":"2019-02-25T16:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1950"},"modified":"2019-05-27T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:04:09","slug":"slovo-gillian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1950","title":{"rendered":"Slovo, Gillian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillian Slovo is a novelist, playwright, and memoirist. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1952 to Joe Slovo, of Jewish-Lithuanian family and leader of the South African Communist Party, and Ruth First, a Jewish anti-apartheid activist who was killed by a parcel bomb. Gillian Slovo has lived in London since 1964. After graduating from the University of Manchester in 1974, she has worked as a journalist, television producer, and writer. Her first novel was <em>Morbid Symptoms<\/em>&nbsp;(1984), followed by many more, including <em>Red Dust<\/em> (2000), <em>Black Orchids<\/em> (2008), and <em>Ten Days<\/em> (2016). For her novel <em>Ice Road<\/em> (2004), Slovo was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her family memoir <em>Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country<\/em>&nbsp;(1997) was an international bestseller. With Victoria Brittain, she co-wrote the play <em>Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom<\/em> (2005), which was staged in theaters around the world. Her verbatim play <em>The Riots<\/em>, which evaluates the events of the 2011 England riots, premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in November 2011. Her edited interviews with female politicians was&nbsp;staged in the context of the Tricycle&#8217;s 2010 Women Power and Politics Season. In 2013, Slovo won the Golden PEN Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019, together with <a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=418\">Mike Leigh<\/a> and more than 200 other Jewish members and supporters of the Labour Party, Slovo signed a letter in support of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, responding to charges of antisemitism in the Labour Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Slovo is a novelist, playwright, and memoirist. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1952 to Joe Slovo, of Jewish-Lithuanian family and leader of the South African Communist Party, and Ruth First, a Jewish anti-apartheid activist who was killed by a parcel bomb. Gillian Slovo has lived in London since 1964. After graduating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":567,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1950","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1950\/revisions\/2325"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}