Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of ... Fugard wrote the 1980 novel “Tsotsi,” the basis for the 2005 Gavin Hood film that won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, as well ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot ... which was made into a movie by Gavin Hood and won the 2006 Oscar for Best International Feature. His other works included The Road to Mecca, My Children!

Acclaimed playwright and novelist Athol Fugard died on Saturday, 8 March, at 92. Lisa, his daughter, told News24 that her father spent the day watching birds and was eagerly anticipating a cricket ...

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities." ...

It was Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost playwright and the great chronicler of his country’s apartheid past. There he was, sipping a cup of coffee like any ordinary person. I plucked up ...

The South African playwright, who died on March 8 at age 92, brought searing dramatic and moral force to his depictions of ...

By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former theater critic and obituary writer for The Times. Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose portrayals of intimate relationships burdened by ...

Athol Fugard, the celebrated playwright ... was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Gavin Hood in 2005. In The Island, co-written with Kani and Ntshona, the dehumanising ...

The South African playwright and actor Athol Fugard, who died on March 8 at age 92, is the extraordinarily rare artist for whom one could make such lofty assertions. Mr. Fugard wrote more than 30 ...

Internationally acclaimed South African playwright, novelist, director and actor Athol Fugard has died. According to information received by News24, the 92-year-old died on Saturday. "It is a very sad ...