{{Short description|South African anti-apartheid publishing company}} '''Ravan Press''', established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house.<ref name=OCB>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100405690 Ravan Press], in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, ''The Oxford Companion to the Book'', online ed., 2010.</ref>
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.<ref name=OCB/>
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.<ref>[https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/abpr.1988.14.issue-4/abpr.1988.14.4.231/abpr.1988.14.4.231.xml "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.</ref>
In the 1990s Ravan Press was taken over by Pan MacMillan.<ref>Nerisha Baldevu, [http://khanyajournal.org.za/kc-journal-no-24-july-2010-progressive-publishing-the-ravan-press-experience/ Progressive publishing – the Ravan Press experience], ''Khanya Journal'' 24, July 2010.</ref>
==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<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/staffrider-series-ravan.html Staffrider Series (Ravan Press) - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.</ref> * Topic Series
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==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== * Josh MacPhee, [https://justseeds.org/239-ravan-books/ Judging Books by Their Covers 239: Ravan Books], ''Just Seeds'', June 27, 2016. {{Authority control}} Category:Publishing companies established in 1972 Category:Book publishing companies of South Africa Category:Anti-apartheid organisations Category:South African companies established in 1972
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