Kwela Books

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

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 , 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 - 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[]

External links[]

• Official website