Ravan Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house.1
Ravan Press was initially established to print the reports of the South African Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-Cas). In 1974 it became a donor-funded oppositional publishing house, specializing in anti-apartheid literature.1
In 1984, following its release of Njabulo Ndebele's novel Fools and Other Stories (Staffrider Series, No. 19), Ravan Press won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.2
In the 1990s Ravan Press was taken over by Pan MacMillan.3
Book series published by Ravan Press
- Battles of the Anglo-Boers
- New History of Southern Africa Series
- Ravan Local History
- Ravan Playscripts
- Ravan Writers Series
- Staffrider Series4
- Topic Series
References
References
- Ravan Press, in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, The Oxford Companion to the Book, online ed., 2010.
- "A Profile of Ravan Press: 1984 Noma Award Winner", The African Book Publishing Record, Vol. 14, Issue 4, January 1988, p. 231. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- Nerisha Baldevu, Progressive publishing – the Ravan Press experience, Khanya Journal 24, July 2010.
- Staffrider Series (Ravan Press) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
Further reading
Further reading
- G. E. De Villiers, Ravan: Twenty-Five Years (1972-1997): A Commemorative Volume of New Writing, Randburg, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1997.
External links
External links
- Josh MacPhee, Judging Books by Their Covers 239: Ravan Books, Just Seeds, June 27, 2016.