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BIOGRAHY OF ATHOL FUGARD
Harold Athol Fugard born 11 June 1932, South African playwright,
actor and novelist world famous for his cutting portrayal of
apartheid.
Athol enrolled at the University of Cape Town but he did not finish
he’s studies, dropping out to travel Africa and the world (SAHO,
2013). He found a work at a ship and he travelled around the
world for 2 years before returning home.
Fugard then found a job as the court clerk and through this was
able to witness the destruction on the humans by the apartheid
system.
Athol Fugard started writing after a brief spell at acting, his first
work in theatres was a piece called The Rehearsal Room. Fugard
wrote, acted and directed the play which with its multiracial cast
openly rejected segregation in South Africa theatres. In 1958, he
produced No good Friday, in this play he shared the stage with
Zakes Mokae. In 1960, Fugard returned to Port Elizabeth where
he partnered with The Serpent Players.
The following year he wrote his first international success The
Blood Knot. Even though he’s not well known in South Africa, his
plays have attracted the attention of actors Danny Glover and
James Earl Jones, who acted in The blood knot and Master
Harold and the boys.
Athol Fugard is an accomplished actor, having played Jan Smuts
in the famous film Gandhi. He continues to write and act, his
latest work being The Captain’s Tiger published in 1999 (SAHO,
Harold Athol Fugard, 2019).
BIOGRAPHY OF SALMAN RUSHDIE
Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist, best known for the
novels Midnight’s Children (1981) and The Satanic Verse (1988),
for which he was accused of blasphemy against Islam.
He was born in 1947, June 19 in Bombay now Mumbai. He is the
only son of a wealthy Indian businessman and a school teacher.
He went to University of Cambridge where he received his M.A.
In 1975 he published his first book, Grimus, a fantasy and science
fiction novel that received tepid reviews. In 1993 and 2008 it was
awarded the ‘Best of the Bookers’, a distinction that made it the
best novel to have won a Booker Prize for Friction in the award’s
25 and later 40-year history.