Athol Fugard

Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard ( born June 11, 1932 in Middelburg / Great Karoo in South Africa) is a South African novelist and playwright.

Life

Fugard grew up in Port Elizabeth. His mother exerted great influence on him and gave him the Afrikaner tradition. He worked at the same time as an auto mechanic, actor and journalist until he was able to study on a scholarship at the University of Cape Town, but he broke off his studies and was hired as a sailor. Back in South Africa, he worked as an actor and editor in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth and began his work as a playwright.

The first successes had Fugard with No- Good Friday (1958) and Nongogo (1959). During the race riots of 1960, he wrote the only 20 years later published novel Tsotsi ( which was filmed in 2005 and 2006, won the Oscar for " Best Foreign Film" went ), and several dramas that deal with the issue of racism, for example, The Blood Knot (1961 ), People are Living There ( 1963) and Boesman and Lena ( 1966). Several of his plays were first performed at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In the movie Gandhi Fugard was seen as an actor. Since about 1995, writes and publishes Fugard a multi-volume autobiography.

Works

  • Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (1972 )
  • Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972, Germany 1974)
  • The Iceland (1973 )
  • Dimetos (1975)
  • Hello and Goodbye (1961, completed 1976)
  • A Lesson From Aloes (1978 )
  • The Road to Mecca (1986 )
  • My Children! My Africa! (1989)

Awards (selection)

Filmography

  • 2000: Bushman and Lena ( Boesman and Lena)
  • 2005: Tsotsi
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