Athol Fugard (born 1932) is a South African playwright known for his subtle, poignant descriptions of the racial problems in his country. Athol Fugard was born on June 11, 1932, in Middelburgh, a small village in the Karroo district in South Africa, of a...

Athol Fugard is the most important South African playwright and the first to have an international reputation. His plays command audiences the world over, despite their local origins and idiom. He has been hailed by William A. Henry in Time magazine (18...

Valley Song by Athol Fugard Born in 1932, Athol Fugard grew up to become the most renowned playwright of South Africa. His career spans four decades of the turbulent history of that racially divided country, during which his plays have made powerful...

Athol Fugard. London/Boston. Faber & Faber. 1996 (released 1997). x + 54 pages. [pounds]6.99/$10.95. ISBN 0-571-17908-8. The setting is post-apartheid South Africa. Abraam Jonkers, called ou (old) Buks, is the guardian and oupa or grandfather of seventeen-year-old Veronica. He and she would...

Byline: ANDREW LOUDON TWO elderly friends have been found brutally murdered in an idyllic part of North Wales known as the Valley of Song. Widow Elsie Davies, 90, and a man in his late 80s who helped her to run her...