Sheila Fugard is a South African novelist and poet. She has been living in California for the last ten years. She is the author of three novels, The Castaways, Rite of Passage and A Revolutionary Woman.
Her first novel The Castaways emerged in the early seventies as both an historical exploration of South Africa,and as a metaphor for the oppressive apartheid society of that time.The novel won both the Olive Shreiner and CNA awards for fiction. Her short stories have been anthologized and Lace was published in The Heinemann Book of African Women Writing.
She has written four collections of poetry. Threshold and Mythic Things were published in the seventies and early eighties, while Reclaiming Desert Places appeared in 1992 and The Magic Scattering of a Life in 2006.
Sheila Fugard is married to the playwright Athol Fugard, and mother of the novelist, Lisa Fugard. She has been a Tibetan Buddhist since the early seventies.
contact: sheila@sheilafugard.com
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