Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Anton Robert Krueger, Amanda Strydom, Ronald Harwood, Ian Fraser, Antjie Krog, Ari Sitas, Stelio Savante, Paul Slabolepszy, Kessie Govender, Paul Herzberg, Charles J. Fourie, John Kani, Damon Galgut, Ben Voss, Johannes Kerkorrel, Rehane Abrahams, Ashraf Johaardien, Fiona Coyne, John van de Ruit, Gillian Slovo, Clinton Marius, Mbongeni Ngema, Mthuli ka Shezi, Glyn Jones, Duma Kumalo, Dana Snyman, Gibson Kente, Stephen Black, Diphete Bopape, Winston Ntshona, Ronnie Govender. Excerpt: Athol Fugard (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. He is an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting, and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. For academic year 2000-2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. The recipient of many awards, honors, 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. Athol Fugard was born as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard, in Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa, on 11 June 1932, to Irish and Afrikaner parents; his mother, Elizabeth Magdalena (nee Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house; his father, Harold, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent. In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth. In 1938, he began attending primary school at Marist Brothers College, a...