Fugard has written a single novel, Tsotsi, which director Gavin Hood has made into a feature film that The Times (London) calls a remarkable achievement and is South Africa s official entry for the 2006 Academy Awards. One of the world s preeminent playwrights, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize (Mel Gussow, The New Yorker), 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. Tsotsi is a real find, by one of the most affecting and moving writers of our time (Financial Times)- and the novel is now being reissued to coincide with the release of a feature film, which is already being compared to 2004 s runaway hit City of God. Buy It: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Borders
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