Common world

A common world

Gillian Slovo observes that it’s often easier to write linked short stories in a censored, pressured environment than to write a longer novel.

by Gillian Slovo and Kamila Shamsie

7th August 2021

Common world

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“There is a common world, and one of the things we have in common at the moment is a lot of divisions, but literature has always existed in those moments and through those moments.”

Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo, the daughter of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, has lived in England since 1964, working as a writer, journalist and film producer.

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages.

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