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Ravan Press , established in 1972 by
Peter Ralph Randall ,
Danie van Zyl , and
Beyers Naudé , was a South African
anti-apartheid publishing house.
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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 '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 .
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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
References
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b
Ravan Press , in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, The Oxford Companion to the Book , online ed., 2010.
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"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.
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Staffrider Series (Ravan Press) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
Further reading
G. E. De Villiers, Ravan: Twenty-Five Years (1972-1997): A Commemorative Volume of New Writing , Randburg, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1997.
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