Deuteronomy Bhekinkosi ‘DBZ’ Ntuli - a short biography and bibliography of this KwaZulu-Natal author.
Deuteronomy Bhekinkosi ‘DBZ’ Ntuli was
born at
Gcotsheni,
Eshowe, on 8 May 1940. He matriculated at St Francis
College, Mariannhill, and completed his junior degree at
the University College of Zululand. After working for
three years as an announcer/producer for the Zulu service
of the SABC, he joined the staff of the University of
South Africa (UNISA) as a lecturer in the Department of
African Languages. In 1978 he was awarded a D Litt degree
and he was head of the Sub-department of Zulu before his
retirement in 1999 after thirty-two years of service at
UNISA. He was twenty-one years of age when his first book,
a novel, UBheka, was published.
His second novel Ngiyoze ngimthole was published eight
years later. It is in the category of short stories and
essays that Ntuli has contributed most. To date he has
published sixteen volumes of short stories and essays
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including ten books of drama and eight anthologies of
poetry he authored or co-authored or edited. He has
translated into IsiZulu numerous manuals and books, the
most outstanding ones of which are Nelson Mandela’s
Long
Walk to Freedom (Uhambo olude oluya enkululekweni) and
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (UMpholofethi). Ntuli
has won
about twenty awards for his various literary works. On
four occasions, over the past twenty years he won the BW
Vilakazi Award, the most prestigious award for IsiZulu
literature, for his books: Imicibisholo and
Izizenze which
are short stories and essays, Izimpande, a history of
Zulu
literature and Imilando YakwaZulu, a drama. Six doctoral
theses have been written on his works. He is a founder
member of Usiba Writers’ Guild which will be
celebrating
its twentieth anniversary in August 2005, and is currently
a freelance reviewer, editor and translator for publishing
firms.
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St Francis College, Marianhill
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Bibliograpy1996. Amandl'Esam bane.
1998. Yekantni Ulzuzenza.
2003. Kazi Ikusas Lisiphatheleni. For more information please visit
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