Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film '' A World Apart'', based on her childhood under

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. She is the daughter of

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leaders

Joe Slovo Joe Slovo (born Yossel Mashel Slovo; 23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995) was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Pa ...

and

Ruth First Heloise Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti- apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police. Family and ed ...

. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film ''

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'' (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film '' Captain Corelli's Mandolin''. In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films ''

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'' and '' The King of Comedy''. She also wrote the screenplay for ''

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''. Slovo lives in London and often works for

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. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. Slovo's family is

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