Publications:

‘Fools' and other Stories , 1983

Rediscovery of the Ordinary , 1991

Bonolo and the Peach Tree , 1991

The Prophetess , 1992

Sarah, Rings and I , 1993

Death of a Son , 1996

The Cry of Winnie Mandela , David Philip Publishers, 2003

NJABULO NDEBELE

South Africa

Njabulo Ndebele , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town since July 2000, following tenure as Resident Scholar at the Ford Foundations' headquarters in New York since 1998, is an internationally respected writer with many years of teaching and research in an academic environment. From 1993 to 1998 he was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the North and previously served as Vice Rector of the University of the Western Cape . Earlier positions include Chair of the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand , and Provost, Dean and Head of the English Department at the National University of Lesotho.

Prof Ndebele obtained his Masters degree in English Literature from Cambridge University , U.K. , and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, English and American Literature and Creative Writing from University of Denver , USA., and has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates in Literature.

His book “Fools” and other Stories , a chronicle of life in a black township under apartheid, was the joint winner of the SANLAM prize for outstanding fiction in 1986, and received the Noma award for the best book published in Africa in 1983. His highly influential critical essays were published in a collection called South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary . Another major publication, a collection of all his essays since 1992, is forthcoming.

Ndebele's latest work, The Cry of Winnie Mandela , is a powerful fusion of fact and fiction, in which Ndebele movingly portrays the experience of the black South African women. “For so many decades South Africans have been thirsting for this text. I feel privileged to be of the country where it has originated.” - Antjie Krog .