Ravan Press, established in 1972 by
Peter Ralph Randall
Peter Ralph Randall was an anti-apartheid publisher in South Africa, and was banned by the former South African government between 1977 and 1981. He later became a professor in charge of teacher education at the University of the Witwatersrand, J ...
,
Danie van Zyl, and
Beyers Naudé
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was known simply as Beyers Naudé, or more colloquially, ...
, was a South African
anti-apartheid publishing house.
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in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, ''The Oxford Companion to the Book'', online ed., 2010.
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.
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In 1984, following its release of ]Njabulo Ndebele
Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele (born 4 July 1948) is an academic and writer of fiction who is the former vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT). On November 16, 2012, he was inaugurated as the chancellor of the Univer ...
's novel ''Fools and Other Stories'' (Staffrider
''Staffrider'' was a South African literary magazine that was published between 1978 and 1996.
History and profile
''Staffrider'' was first published in March 1978. Its founder was Mike Kirkwood. The magazine took its name from slang for people h ...
Series, No. 19), Ravan Press won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (''French:Le Prix Noma de Publication en Afrique''), which ran from 1980 to 2009, was an annual $10,000 prize for outstanding African writers and scholars who published in Africa. Within four years of its est ...
.
In the 1990s Ravan Press was taken over by Pan MacMillan
Pan Books is a publishing imprint (trade name), imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the United Kingdom, British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.
Pan Books b ...
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Book series published by Ravan Press
* Battles of the Anglo-Boers
* New History of Southern Africa
* Ravan Local History
* Ravan Playscripts
* Ravan Writers Series
* Staffrider
''Staffrider'' was a South African literary magazine that was published between 1978 and 1996.
History and profile
''Staffrider'' was first published in March 1978. Its founder was Mike Kirkwood. The magazine took its name from slang for people h ...
SeriesStaffrider Series (Ravan Press) - Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
* Topic Series
References
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
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Josh MacPhee
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator, stonemason and activist living in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
Josh MacPhee's work as a socially-engaged artist and designer focuses on production and distribution of political graphics. Originally from Hol ...
Judging Books by Their Covers 239: Ravan Books ''Just Seeds'', June 27, 2016.
Publishing companies established in 1972
Book publishing companies of South Africa
Anti-Apartheid organisations
South African companies established in 1972
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