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Athol Fugard

Also known as: Fugard, Athol., Athol FUGARD

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Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard ( ATH-əl FYOO-gard; 11 June 1932 – 8 March 2025) 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.

The living room and, leading off it, the bedroom alcove of a house in the small Karoo village of New Bethesda.

— from The road to Mecca

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The blood knot

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The road to Mecca

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This autobiographical work by one of Europe's best known convert to Islam gives us a rounded portrait of a man in search of adventure and truth. It is part spiritual autobiography, part summary of the author's intuitive insights into Islam and the Arabs, part an impressive travelogue. Punctuated with abundant adventure, moments of contemplation, colorful narrative, brilliant description and lively anecdote, it tells above all a human story, a story of a modern man's restlessness and loneliness, passions and ambitions, joys and sorrows, anxiety and commitment, vision and humaneness.

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Plays, One

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A volume of plays from John Bowen, one of the twentieth century's leading novelists and playwrights. Includes: After the Rain, The Disorderly Women, Little Boxes, and Singles. Bowen’s plays, like his novels, are preoccupied with myth, manipulation and self-deceit.

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