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Athol Fugard

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South African playwright (1932-2025)

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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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2014Praemium Imperiale
2005Order of Ikhamanga in Silver
1997Paul Robeson Award
1986Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Evelyn F. Burkey Award
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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. 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.

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South Africa
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1932 to 2025 · aged 92
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