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Kwela Books is a South African publishing house founded in Cape Town in 1994 as a new imprint of NB Publishers.

Contents

Maxine case reads from her novel all we have left unsaid kwela books


1994-2004

In the first ten years it published several books.

Notable publications

  • Kafka's Curse by Achmat Dangor
  • Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
  • Underground People by Lewis Nkosi
  • The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker, 2001
  • Shark's Egg by Henrietta Rose-Innes, 2000
  • Vatmaar by A.H.M. Scholtz,
  • Confessions of a Gambler by Rayda Jacobs, 20XX - winner of The Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2004
  • Ons is nie almal so nie by Jeanne Goosen
  • Kleur kom nooit alleen nie by Antjie Krog

    • 2004-present

    Post 2004 Kwela continued to publish, winning several awards.

    Notable publications

  • Dog Eat Dog by Niq Mhlongo, 2004 - winner of the 2005 Mar des Lettras Prize
  • All We Have Left Unsaid by Maxine Case, 2006 – winner of 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and joint winner of the 2007 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction.
  • Behind Every Successful Man by Zukiswa Wanner, 2008 -
  • The Dream in the Next Body by Gabeba Baderoon, 2005 - winner of the 2005 Daimler-Crysler Prize.
  • The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman, 2008 - winner of The Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2009.
  • Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele, 2010 - winner of 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and the M-Net Film Prize 2011 at the M-Net Literary Awards.
  • Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart by Finuala Dowling, 2011 - winner of the M-Net Prize for English Fiction 2012.
  • Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe, 2010 - winner of The Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011, the 2010 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction, the SALA
  • Room 207 by Kgebetli Moele, 2006 - joint winner of the 2007 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction and the University of Johannesburg Prize for debut fiction.
  • Die staat teen Anna Bruwer by Anchien Troskie, 2012
  • The Lazarus Effect by H.J. Golakai, 2011 - shortlisted for The Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2012.
  • Moss by Mary Watson, 2004 -
  • Siegfreid by Willem Anker, 2007 - winner of
  • Ancient Rites by Diale Tlholwe - winner of the SALA
  • Beauty's Gift by Sindiwe Magona, 2008 -
  • Small Moving Parts by Sally-Ann Murray, 2009 - winner of the M-Net Prize for English Fiction 2010

    • References

    Kwela Books Wikipedia
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