A former alcoholic, Fugard has been a teetotaler since the early 1980s. The Fugards moved to Johannesburg in 1958, where he worked as a clerk in a Native Commissioners' Court, which 'made him keenly aware of the injustices of apartheid.' He was good friends with prominent local anti-apartheid figures, which had a profound impact on Fugard, whose plays' political impetus brought him into conflict with the national government to avoid prosecution, he had his plays produced and published outside South Africa.

Fugard and Fourie presently live in the Cape Winelands region of South Africa. In 2016, in New York City Hall, Fugard was married to South African writer and academic Paula Fourie. In 2015, after almost 60 years of marriage, the couple divorced. Their daughter LisaвЂ…Fugard is a novelist. Now known as SheilaвЂ…Fugard, she is a novelist and poet. In September 1956, he married Sheila Meiring, a University of Cape Town Drama School student whom he had met the previous year. He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and then spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur, where he began writing, an experience 'celebrated' in his 1999 autobiographical play The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage. After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at a local technical college for secondary education and then studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the UniversityвЂ…ofвЂ…CapeвЂ…Town, but he dropped out of the university in 1953, a few months before final examinations. In 1938, he began attending primary school at MaristвЂ…BrothersвЂ…College. In 1935, his family moved to PortвЂ…Elizabeth. His mother, Marrie (Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house his father, Harold Fugard, was a disabled former jazzвЂ…pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent. ДЇugard was born as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard, in Middelburg,вЂ…EasternвЂ…Cape, South Africa, on 11 June 1932.

He was honoured in Cape Town with the opening of the Fugard Theatre in DistrictвЂ…Six in 2010, and received a TonyвЂ…Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.

He is also an Honorary Fellow of the RoyalвЂ…SocietyвЂ…ofвЂ…Literature. He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 OrderвЂ…ofвЂ…Ikhamanga in Silver 'for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre' from the government of South Africa. Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the UniversityвЂ…ofвЂ…California,вЂ…SanвЂ…Diego. ДЄcclaimed as 'the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world' by Time in 1985, Fugard continues to write and has published more than thirty plays. He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning filmвЂ…ofвЂ…hisвЂ…novel Tsotsi, directed by GavinвЂ…Hood. FRSL, OIS (born 11 June 1932), is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright.

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