Athol Fugard
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Entertainment, Entertainers, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid
- Curriculum: African History
Article abstract: Universally acknowledged to be South Africa’s foremost dramatist, Fugard is also known as “the conscience of his country” for his plays, which focus on the victims of apartheid, and for his sociopolitical drama, which comments on South Africa’s nonwhite population and on the poor and dispossessed who exist on the fringes of society.
Early Life
Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard was born on June 11, 1932, in Cape Province, South Africa, to Elizabeth Magdalena Potgieter, who ran a boarding-house, and Harold David Fugard, a jazz pianist....
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