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South African women dramatists and playwrights (20 P) Pages in category "South African dramatists and playwrights" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total.
Athol Fugard OIS, HonFRSL (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. [1] He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid. Some of these have also been adapted for film.
Damon Galgut (born 12 November 1963) is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, having previously been shortlisted for the award in 2003 and 2010. [1]
Bessie Head (1937–1986), novelist and short-story writer born in South Africa [Killam & Rowe] Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), playwright and poet; Barolong Seboni (1957–), poet and academic
Pages in category "South African male dramatists and playwrights" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ian Fraser (born 18 April 1962) is a South African playwright, writer, comedian, anti-Apartheid activist, artist, anarchist, and social agitator, now living in the USA. He began as South Africa's first street-level comedian, " ranting-verse " poet, and acerbic anti-government satirist.
Jane Taylor (19 April 1956 - 6 September 2023 [1]) was a South African writer, playwright and academic. She held the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Stephen William Black (1880, Claremont, Cape – 1931) was a South African playwright, who has been called "South Africa's first professional dramatist". [1]Schooled in his twenties, Black earnt money as a boxer and journalist before the success of his satirical farce Love and the Hyphen in 1908.