Notebooks, 1960-1977

by Athol Fugard

Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre.—Time




Athol Fugard's Notebooks gives readers a glimpse into his writing process over the course of 17 crucial years. In this time, he penned such classics as Hello and Goodbye, Boesman and Lena, and Blood Knot, the notes on which serve as the first entry in this memoir on writing. The excerpts and musings in Notebooks are what lead to some of Fugard's most prolific work.

248 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2013

About the author

Athol Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. Acclaimed in 1985 as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time, he published more than thirty plays. He was best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. It was directed by Gavin Hood.
Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.
Fugard received many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver from the government of South Africa in 2005 "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre". He was also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Fugard was honoured in Cape Town with the opening in 2010 of the Fugard Theatre in District Six. He received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.