Fugard And Knapp
Fugard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Athol Fugard (born 1932), South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director * Lisa Fugard, South African-born American actress and writer, daughter of Athol and Sheila *Sheila Meiring Fugard Sheila Meiring Fugard (born 1932 in England) is a writer of short stories and plays and the ex-wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard. Personal history Born in Birmingham, England in 1932, Sheila Meiring moved with her parents to South A ...

Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, Hon. , (born 11 June 1932), is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning film of his novel ''Tsotsi'', directed by Gavin Hood. Acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by ''Time'' in 1985, Fugard continues to write and has published more than thirty plays. Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Fugard was honoured in Cape Town with the opening of t ...
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Lisa Fugard
Lisa Fugard is a South African writer and actor. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the only child of playwright Athol Fugard and novelist Sheila Meiring Fugard. Career Fugard moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue an acting career, and has garnered numerous stage and film roles, including Isabel Dyson in the original production of her father's ''My Children! My Africa!'' She, her husband, and son (born 2004) have lived in the desert of Southern California since early 2002, in Borrego Springs and Encinitas, on the coast north of San Diego. Since 1992, Fugard has written many short stories for literary magazines, and articles for ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'' travel section. In January 2006, she wrote the novel ''Skinner's Dr ...
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