Talk:Athol Fugard

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I have changed the spelling of a middle name from 'Lanigan' to 'Lannigan' on the basis of a google search minus Wikipedia. The two ext links conflict, but I take the Literary Encyclopaedia as more definitive. Noisy | Talk 13:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] White

I'm expecting this one word in the first sentence to be controversial, so I'll explain my reasoning. For many writers race is not that important, but for Athol Fugard, it is at the heart of most of his works. So the fact that he is a white man writing about apartheid as opposed to a black one, is, I think, worthy of a word in the first sentence of the article. Feel free to argue otherwise. GRuban 14:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm still not sure why you found it necessary to qualify him with "white". It seems really weird in the intro paragraph. Also, a South African with the surname "Fugard" doesn't sound like umZulu! Could you perhaps not have mentioned your point about the types of plays he wrote somewhere in the body (later on) instead of an out of place qualifier suggesting that his perceived "race" is somehow an important aspect of his notability? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 15:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)