Karavan Press

Independent publisher based in Cape Town.

Ancient paths. New literary journeys.

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[The Book Lounge @book_lounge]

That’s a wrap on 2024 ✨ thank you for your incredible support over this year, we are endlessly grateful for this community!

#bookstore #bookcommunity #reading #capetown

[Firdose Moonda @FirdoseM]

💫 2024: A Good Year.

🗒️ One of my @ESPNcricinfo long form pieces was longlisted for an award.
🏏 SA made THREE finals.
🧘‍♀️ I taught at two yoga schools.
📚 I published an academic essay @RaceAndYoga and a fiction story on @KaravanPress.
😻We added a member to our cat family.

[Riley Herbert-Henry @RileyHHWrites]

@TheBookerPrizes From the author of An Island, a 2021 Booker longlistee, Crooked Seeds 🌱

[Firdose Moonda @FirdoseM]

Super excited and happy to share that my first fiction story has been published by @KaravanPress in this year’s anthology!

Copies are hot off the press and will be available in South African bookstores (and I’ll find out about online).

Yay!!!

[Holland House Books @HhouseBooks]

Happening today!
Calling all Aspiring African Writers! Join us for The African Writer’s Handbook series, hosted by Brittle Paper’s Writing Room and The Island Prize. The topic is SUBMITTING TO PUBLISHERs AND WHAT TO EXPECT.
This event is FREE and open to writers across Africa.

[Exclusive Books @ExclusiveBooks]

📍🗓️ Join us at EB @CavendishCT for a book launch for the new edition of a cherished novel, The Good Cemetery Guide by Consuelo Roland.

@KaravanPress
@consueloroland

📩 RSVP here: https://t.co/EmUXxcZtdn

[SAfmRadio 📻 @SAfmRadio]

#BookOfTheWeek 08h30
#SAfmJSB @MichConstant
Andrew Brown #TheBitternessOfOlives
@KaravanPress

[The Book Lounge @book_lounge]

We have big news 👀 here is our (not so) shortlist for our 2024 Book of the Year! We will be announcing the winner on December 1st so keep your eyes peeled 🤩

[Holland House Books @HhouseBooks]

Celebrating another winner from the Island Prize's first year, and his novel Sand Roses: Hamza Koudri.

A quick look back at the journey of Sand Roses since its publication.

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Diane and Alex were in conversation with Jonathan Amid.

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Another wonderful literary evening at the Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch: Skrywersaand with Diane Awerbuck & @almaxlat.

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Skrywersaand with Diane Awerbuck, Karen Jennings and Alex Latimer, 21 November, 2024, Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch
https://t.co/yzk7f8u1J7

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

DAYSPRING by C. J. (Jonty) Driver is Lyndall Gordon's pick for Book of the Year (The New Statesman)!
https://t.co/K3FBFKshhk

[Alex Latimer @almaxlat]

My short story collection ‘Love Stories for Ghosts’ is shortlisted for The Book Lounge Book of the Year!

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

The @book_lounge Book of the Year Shortlist! 😍

[Holland House Books @HhouseBooks]

Celebrating our very first winner, and her novel Glass Tower: Sarah Isaacs.

A quick look back at the journey of Glass Tower since its publication.

#authorslife #islandprize #books #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #africanliterature #readingcommunity #bookstagrammer

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Please join us at The Book Lounge for a celebration of Andrew Brown’s The Bitterness of Olives, winner of the 2024 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.
https://t.co/jufPpYdOZ7

[Dr Karina M. Szczurek @KarinaMSzczurek]

This is special beyond simple words, but I want to pause to acknowledge this moment: Nadine Gordimer's short stories brought me to South Africa in 2004. Dawn Garisch's stories made me want to become a publisher. And now this recognition. The stars have aligned. Thank you.

[Open Book Festival @OpenBookFest]

New #OBF2024 episodes dropping! Starting today with Colonialism & Fracture
Coming Thursday: The Absent & The Present
Watch via YouTube or listen on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts

#OpenBookFestival #CapeTown #LiteraryTalks #SouthAfricanLiterature #LiteraryPodcast

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Flash writing workshop with @KerryHammerton -- fiction and creative non-fiction.

Venue: Bertha House, 67 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town

Date: 23 November 2024

Time: 10.00 AM - 2.00 PM