About Jacana Media
Since 2002 we have published at the cutting edge of critical, adventurous and independent South African literature.
Having secured, through a buy-out, a future for the company in August 2019, we are now the only major South African publishing house that is independent and owner-managed.
We are a ground-breaking and fiercely independent publisher, producing books in the fields of the arts, natural history, lifestyle, fiction, South African history, current affairs, memoir and biography, children’s books and public health. We publish work from some of the most imaginative, award-winning and clear-thinking minds of our time. Our books respond to the challenges of the moment and certainly inform and frequently change the national conversation.
Jacana Media won the Bologna Book Fair award for Best African Children’s Publisher in 2018. We have made it a proud tradition to publish in all 11 official South African languages.
The Jacana Literary Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, runs literary awards; the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for best poetry in all languages, the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award and the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, a collection of exceptional works which explore, interrogate and celebrate the topics of gender, sexuality and human rights.
We are the original publishers of The Caine Prize for African Writing.
Through our publishing and through the Jacana Literary Foundation, we give voice to the unusual, the brilliant, the queer and the brave. It’s our future after all.
Featured Titles
Weekend Special: “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” – William Faulkner
Buy your copies of Crossroads: I Live Where I Like and These Are the Things That Sit with Us. Quote coupon code WOMEN50 at checkout to qualify for your 50% discount!
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The UJ Center for Student Health & Wellness and Jacana Media invite you to the launch of Boy on the Run by @WelcomeWrites!
📅Tuesday 16 August
🕕14:00
📍APK Library, Level 5. The event will also be livestreamed via Facebook
📚RSVP: iohainfo@uj.ac.za
We hope to see you there!
This cover is dope. Can you say COFFEE TABLE ntonton. This is a sure conversation starter. SBWL @JacanaMedia 🫣💗
Nthikeng Mohlele Is Our Author of the Month!
@NthikengMohlele was partly raised in Limpopo and in Tembisa Township, and attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained a BA in Dramatic Art, Publishing Studies and African Literature.
Weekend Special: Of Rivers and Streets
Buy your copies of Christopher & The Mourning Bird (quickly, to qualify for your 50% discount!). Quote coupon code WOMEN50 at checkout. The offer is valid until midnight, Mon, 8 August.
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