Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- Praemium Imperiale · 2014
- Order of Ikhamanga in Silver · 2005
- Paul Robeson Award · 1997
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 1986
- Evelyn F. Burkey Award
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- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- Tony Award — Best Direction of a Play · 1982 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Direction of a Play · 1975 · nominated
Filmography5 titles
Gandhi
The Killing Fields
Tsotsi
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard