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Kwela Books

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

1994-2004
In the first ten years it published several books. Notable publications • ''Kafka's Curse'' by Achmat DangorBitter Fruit by Achmat DangorUnderground People by Lewis NkosiThe 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 GoosenKleur kom nooit alleen nie by Antjie Krog ==2004-present==
2004-present
Post 2004 Kwela continued to publish, winning several awards. Notable publicationsDog 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-Chrysler 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 • ''It Doesn't Have to Be This Way by Alistair Mackay, 2022 - longlisted for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel, listed as one of Brittle Paper'''s 100 Notable African Books of 2022. == References ==
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