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Apr 18, 1962 62 years old
South African writer and activist
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About Ian Fraser Playwright
- Ian Fraser (born 18 April 1962) is a South African playwright, writer, comedian, anti-Apartheid activist, artist, anarchist, and social agitator, now living in the USA.
- He began as South Africa's first street-level comedian, "ranting-verse" poet, and acerbic anti-government satirist.
- He has consistently been a pro-democracy, anti-establishment voice, both under Apartheid and under the new dispensation in South Africa. Fraser has won many awards for his plays, including the 1992 Amstel Playwright of the Year Award and the 1992 Tonight-AA Life Vita Award for Comedy.
- His comedic work has been compared with that of Americans Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks, and his dramatic writing to that of Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and Tom Stoppard.
- Critics characterised Fraser's work as alternatively swinging between brutality and violence, and delicacy, sensitivity and grace.Alongside his plays, Fraser also performed eight "one-man" satire shows, primarily at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa, Africa's largest Arts Festival.
- His works repeatedly won the coveted "Pick of the Fringe" award.
