Gillian Slovo

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

Life

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

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

Works

• 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
• Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, 1997 ( autobiography)
• Red Dust, 2000
• Ice Road, 2004