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South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The Blood Knot" and "’Master Harold’... and the Boys" to ...
Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol ...
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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going to be ...
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Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday. He was 92. While a ...
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Athol Fugard: The great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human

I WAS shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor. When I think ...