Athol fugard famous works

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 It was directed by Gavin Hood. Acclaimed in as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time , [ 3 ] Fugard continues to write. He has published more than thirty plays. Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.

He has received many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver from the government of South Africa "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre".

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In , his family moved to Port Elizabeth. He studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town , [ 13 ] but he dropped out of the university in , a few months before final examinations. He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur.

Their daughter Lisa Fugard is a novelist. In , the Fugards moved to Johannesburg , where he worked as a clerk in a Native Commissioners' Court. He became "keenly aware of the injustices of apartheid. His plays' political expression brought him into conflict with the national government; to avoid prosecution, he had his plays produced and published outside South Africa.

In , Fugard returned again to South Africa, where he now lives permanently. In , after almost 60 years of marriage, the Fugards divorced. In , Fugard organised "a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted", writing and producing several plays for it, including No-Good Friday and Nongogo , in which he and his colleague, black South African actor Zakes Mokae performed.