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South African playwright ATHOL FUGARD

2: South African playwright ATHOL FUGARD. He still makes his home in South Africa, though he writes plays which confront the apartied system; his plays were the among the first to bring white and black actors on stage together. Perhaps his most well known play was "Master Harold and the Boys"; his latest work was 1993's "Playland." (Rebroa Professor of African Literature (at the University of Pittsburgh) DENNIS BRUTUS. An exiled poet, he spent years in prison with Nelson Mandela; he has since been granted a passport from South Africa, though he chooses to live in the United States. (Rebroa

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