Ravan Press
South African anti-apartheid publishing company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Series[4]
- Topic Series
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