Lisa Fugard is a South African writer and actor. She was born in

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, South Africa, the only child of playwright

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 apart ...

and novelist

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 ...

Career

Fugard moved to

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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

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since early 2002, in

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and

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, on the coast north of

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. Since 1992, Fugard has written many short stories for literary magazines, and articles for ''

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'' travel section. In January 2006, she wrote the novel ''Skinner's Drift'', , about turmoil on a South African farm in 1997.

Talks

Fugard was a guest speaker at the 2007 Literary Guild of Orange County Festival of Women Authors.

References

African odyssey
January 2006 BookPage.com Interview by Alden Mudge *

External links

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