Athol Fugard
South African playwright (1932-2025) · South Africa · On the map · Writers · Died at 92
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time magazine in 1985, he published more than thirty plays.
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John Kani Also in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1974)
Winston Ntshona Also in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1974)
Richard Attenborough Produced Gandhi (1983)
Peter Brook Directed Meetings with Remarkable Men (1985)
Roland Joffé Directed The Killing Fields (1985)
Gavin Hood Directed Tsotsi (2005)
David Puttnam Produced The Killing Fields (1985)
Marius Weyers Also in Gandhi (1983)
Michael Lindsay-Hogg Directed 'Master Harold'... and the Boys (1985)- Yvonne Bryceland Also in Boesman and Lena and The Road to Mecca
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He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. Three plays he wrote, and two plays he co-authored, were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
