Name Ronnie Govender | Role Playwright | |
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Books At the edge and other Cato Manor stories |
Ronnie Govender's "Your Own Dog Won't Bite You"
Ronnie Govender (born 1934, in Cato Manor, Durban) is a South African playwright of Tamil descent. His book, At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories, won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa.
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His first play, Beyond Calvary, written during his teaching career which received critical acclaim. He also founded his own theatre company called the Shah Theatre Academy. He wrote The Lahnee’s Pleasure, one of South Africa’s longest-running plays. His daughter, Pregs Govender, is a human rights activist and former South African member of parliament.
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