Athol Fugard
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Athol Fugard
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Athol Fugard OIS HonFRSL is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid. Some of these have also been adapted for film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name and won an Academy Award in 2005. It was directed by Gavin Hood. Acclaimed in 1985 as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time, Fugard
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South African playwright (born 1932)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol_Fugard
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2004-05-30T21:35:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T21:14:57Z
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