Slovo, Gillain

About Gillian Slovo

Goldfarb, Sheldon. “Gillian Slovo.” Critical Survey of Mystery & Detective Fiction, 2008

Peck, David. “Gillian Slovo.” Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, 2007

Reviews

P. W. “The General.” New Internationalist, no. 461, Apr. 2013

Davies, Helen. “Saving General Gordon: Review of Gillian Slovo’s An Honourable Man.” Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2012

Barnard, Josie. “Martyr’s Mission.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5680, 2012

Flanery, Patrick Denman. “Black Orchids.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5528, 2009

Conaty, Barbara. “Ice Road.” Library Journal, vol. 130, no. 11, 2005

Brantley, Ben. “’Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom.” New York Times, vol. 154, no. 53066, Dec. 2004

Kantrowitz, Melanie Kaye. “The Price of Heroism.” Women’s Review of Books, vol. 19, no. 10/11, 2002

Eprile, Tony. “Settling Scores.” New York Times Book Review, 28 Apr. 2002

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. “The High Costs of Living.” New Leader, vol. 85, no. 1, 2002

Perkins, Christine. “Red Dust (Book Review).” Library Journal, vol. 126, no. 16, 2001

Bouwer, Karen. “Moving Forward, Looking Back.” Peace Review, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001

Willms, Dean. “Ties of Blood. (Book).” Library Journal, vol. 115, no. 7, 1990

Interviews

Anthony, Andrew. “Gillian Slovo: ‘I Think the 2011 Riots Sparked Something in Me’.” The Guardian, 21 Feb. 2016

Christopher, Lissa. “Interview: Gillian Slovo.” The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 Dec. 2011

Rees, Jasper. “Interview: Novelist Gillian Slovo.” The Arts Deks, 28 Nov. 2011

“An Interview with Gillian Slovo.” 26, 25 Sep. 2011

Criticism

Ward, Ian. “Terror, Testament, and Trial.” Terrorism and Literature, Herman and Houen (eds.), 2018

Paik, A.Naomi. “Storytelling and Truth-Telling: Testimonial Narratives in The Road to Guantánamo and Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom.” Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond, Adams and Walicek (eds.), 2017

Dente, Carla. “Reality, Theatre and Human Rights.” Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse, Ward (ed.), 2015

Roy, Modhumita. “Is Not the Truth the Truth? Reconciling Truths in Gillian Slovo’s Every Secret Thing and the Practice of Reconciliation in South Africa.” Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation: Teaching and Learning through Literary Responses to Conflict, Riegert Jr. et al. (eds.), 2013

Mantoan, Lindsey. “Place and Misplaced Rights in Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom.” Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater: Global Perspectives, Becker et al. (eds.), 2013

Davis, Geoffrey V. “‘Is Not the Truth the Truth?’: The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner.” Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, Borzaga and Mengel (eds.), 2012

Calder, Gillian. “Guantánamo: Using a Play-Reading to Teach Law.” Canadian Theatre Review, no. 142, 2010

Driver, Dorothy. "Gillian Slovo's Red Dust." Scrutiny2, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007

Lüdeke, Roger. The Politics of ‘Documentary Drama: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo, 2007

Horrell, Georgina. “A Whiter Shade of Pale: White Femininity as Guilty Masquerade in ‘New’ (White) South African Women’s Writing.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 30, no. 4, 2004

Gornick, Vivian. “Comrades, Parents, Strangers.” Nation, vol. 264, no. 18, 1997

Nuttall, Sarah. “Popular Stories of Apartheid: Gillian Slovo’s South African Novels.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, 1997

Works

Autobiography/Life Writing

Merhaba Sinem (2014)

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country (1997)

Novels

Ten Days (2016)

An Honourable Man (2012)

Black Orchids (2008)

Ice Road (2004)

Red Dusk (2000)