Sheila Meiring Fugard (amụrụ ya na 1932) mụrụ na England. Ọ bụ onye edemede nke obere akụkọ na egwuregwu na nwunye ochie nke onye na-ede egwuregwu South Africa Athol Fugard . Amụrụ na Birmingham, England n'afọ 1932, Sheila Meiring na nne na nna ya kwagara South Africa, na 1940, mgbe ọ dị afọ asatọ. Ọ gara na Mahadum Cape Town, ebe ọ na-ede akụkọ dị mkpirikpi ma mụọ ihe nkiri. Ọ zutere onye na-ede egwuregwu Athol Fugard mgbe ọ mere n'otu n'ime egwuregwu ya. Na Septemba 1956, ọ lụrụ Fugard ma nakweere aha nna ya. N'afọ 1972, mgbe ọ dị afọ 40, Sheila Fugard bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, The Castaways, nke meriri Olive Schreiner Prize . N'ikpeazụ, o bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ ndị ọzọ, gụnyere Rite of Passage, n'afọ 1976, na A Revolutionary Woman, na 1983. Nwanyị na-agbanwe agbanwe, akwụkwọ akụkọ ya a kacha mara amara, na-ewere ọnọdụ n'afọ 1920 na mpaghara Karoo nke South Africa wee kọọ akụkọ banyere otu nwanyị na-eso ụzọ Mahatma Gandhi bụ onye abanyela n'okwu ikpe idina n'etiti nwa nwoke nwere agba na otu nwa okoro azụ azụ Boer. nwa agbọghọ.