Athol Fugard

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1974
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Three Port Elizab

  • Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

  • Tsotsi

    "Athol Fugard is renowned for his relentless explorations of personal and political survival in apartheid South Africa - which include his now classic plays Master Harold and the Boys and The Blood Knot. Fugard has written a single novel, Tsotsi, ...

  • Blood Knot and Other Plays

    Three plays that solidified Athol Fugard's indelible mark on theatre.The brothers of Blood Knot -- one dark-skinned, one light -- betray their dreams of a better future with the impossible wish of passing for white. In Hello and Goodbye, a poor white...

  • A Lesson from Aloes

    -- Misha Berson, The Seattle TimesAthol Fugard's uncanny ability to capture the nuances of intense interpersonal relationships ultimately illuminates issues of major social and political importance. In A Lesson from Aloes, he depicts the reunion of...

  • My Children! My Africa!

    -- Linda Winer, New York NewsdayGenerational conflict over the most effective means for ending Apartheid in South Africa leads to an explosive confrontation between a gifted but impatient Black township youth and his devoted but Black teacher in th...

  • The Road to Mecca

    -- Frank Rich, New York TimesAfter her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home and garden in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from cement, glass, wire, and recycled materials. Marius, a local clergyman, belie...

  • Valley Song

    -- John Heilpern, New York ObserverRarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons during and after apartheid in South Africa...

  • The Captain's Tiger

    -- Pretoria News In The Captain’s Tiger, Athol Fugard sets out as a young seafarer and writer to begin The Great Novel -- the exciting tales of his mother, a young Afrikaner, and her escape from small-town life. But what he discovers on his trav...



  • Sorrows and Rejoicings

    With lyrical grace, Fugard demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women -- one white, the other Black -- who on the surface seem to have little...

  • The Train Driver and Other Plays

    -- Athol FugardThe Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and considered by the author to be This seminal work, inspired by a true story of a mother who, with her three small children, committed suicide on the train tracks outside of Cape Town, Sout...

  • The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek

  • Dry Remains

    Paul Auster meets Samuel Beckett in Dry Remains, a literary detective story and dazzlingly macabre anti-biography, co-written by one of South Africa's most celebrated authors.  “I am not a good man,” the Protagonist wrote in one...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Athol Fugard has published 13 books.

Athol Fugard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dry Remains, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Athol Fugard, Three Port Elizab, was published in November 1974.

No. Athol Fugard does not write books in series.
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