![]() ![]() He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and then spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur, where he began writing, an experience 'celebrated' in his 1999 autobiographical play The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage. ![]() After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at a local technical college for secondary education and then studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, but he dropped out of the university in 1953, a few months before final examinations. In 1938, he began attending primary school at Marist Brothers College. In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth. His mother, Marrie (Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house his father, Harold Fugard, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent. ![]() Fugard was born as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard, in Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa, on 11 June 1932. ![]()
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