Valley Song | Author Biography
Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born June 11, 1932 in Middelburg, a small village in the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa. His mother, Elizabeth Magdalena Potgieter Fugard, was an Afrikaner who could trace her ancestry back to the earliest Dutch settlers of 1652. His father, Harold David Fugard, was a South African with English and Irish roots. At his grandmother's request, the boy who would one day become his country's most famous playwright was named Athol after a former British governor of South Africa, the Earl of Athlone.
When he was three years old, Fugard's family moved...
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