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Oxford University Press is a publisher that is committed to the growth of South Africa and its people through the provision of excellent educational materials and support.

We recognize the power of education to uplift and equip individuals and communities to better their lives. We therefore strive to develop and deliver quality educational materials and support based on the demands of South Africa, its learners, students, teachers and lecturers.

We are proud to be part of a long tradition of bringing excellence in education, scholarship and research to people around the world.

Oxford is one of the leading educational publishers in South Africa, producing a wide range of quality curriculum-compliant educational material. Our range includes books from Grade R to grade 12 as well as higher education textbooks, general literature titles, dictionaries and atlases.

Oxford has 1200 locally published books in 11 languages, written by more than 700 South African authors. Oxford University Press globally publishes a range of high quality literary works for readers around the world. These include vibrant picture books, short stories, non-fiction, poetry, award-winning literary fiction and plays.

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Info on two of our authors

Sindiwe Magona

Sindiwe is known as Nomabali
Born on the 27th August 1943 in Umtata, South Africa

Dr Sindiwe Magona: author, poet, playwright, story-teller, actor, and inspirational speaker has recently retired from the United Nations and relocated to her home country, South Africa.

PUBLISHED WORKS: Two autobiographical books: To My Children's Children and Forced to Grow; two collections of short stories: Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night; Push-Push and Other Stories; a novel, Mother to Mother, recently optioned by Universal Studios for a film on the life of Amy Biehl. Rees Witherspoon will play Amy Biehl. Both To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother have been shortlisted for numerous awards.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Magona has written 18 children's books, including: The Best Meal Ever and Life is a hard but beautiful thing.

Magona has also been published in the New York Times, the International Tribune, the Sunday Times, the Cape Times, and the Cape Argus as well as in numerous magazines. Several of her short stories, essays, and poems have been anthologized.

VUKANI! An Aids play has been performed in Colleges, Churches, and theatres in the United States.

AWARDS:

• 1993 - Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters - Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York
• 1997 - New York Foundation for the Arts - Fellowship - Non-fiction category
• 1997 - Xhosa Heroes Award from the Xhosa Forum - Western Cape
• 1997 - UNdimande - Grand Prize Winner - Bhala Writers Short Story Contest
• 2000 - Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO) Award - Fiction

Besides Writers' Conferences, Magona has given readings and addresses at numerous other international fora, including the United Nations, the Kennedy Centre, The Riverside Church, the Ford Foundation, Temple and Columbia Universities, to name a few. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work in women's issues, the plight of children, and the fight against apartheid and racism. Her first ten years at the United Nations were in the Department of Public Information where she worked in the Anti-Apartheid Radio Programmes.

Address: 8 Tiller Armway, East Lake Island, Marina Da Gama, 7945 Tel 021-788 6740 / 082 663 6786 E-mail address: smagona@webmail.co.za

Gcina Mhlophe

Gcina Mhlophe is known as Nozincwadi
Born on the 24th October 1958 in KZN, South Africa

School-education:1979 matriculation at the Mfundisweni High School

Professional training: Cadet journalism course at the Rhodes University; 6 months film making course as part of Interchurch Media Programme's community project

Theatre awards:

• 1987 "OBIE" Award as best actress in "Born in the RSA" - New York
• 1987 "Fringe First Award" for best production of "Have You Seen Zandile" - Edinburgh Festival
• 1988 "Joseph Jefferson Award" as best actress in "Have You Seen Zandile" - Chicago
• 1988 "Sony Award" nomination for best production of "Have You Seen Zandile" - BBC Radio Africa

Publications and writing:

• 1979 Poetry in the "Staffrider Magazine", Ravan Press
• 1980 Story and Poetry in "Reconstruction", Ravan Press
• 1981 Story and Poetry in the "LIP" - anthology, Ravan Press
• 1987 Story and Poetry in "Sometimes When It Rains", Pandora Press, UK - Translations into German and Japanese
• 1987 Stories in "Somehow Tenderness Survives", Harper & Row, USA
• 1988 "Have You Seen Zandile?" Play script, Skotaville Publishers, SA - Prescribed set work at the University Natal, University of Western Cape and UNISA, Republished 1991 for world release by Heinemann publishers, New York
• 1989 "Snake With Seven Heads", children's book, Skotaville Publishers, SA - Translations into five African languages. Accepted in the schools libraries.
• 1990 "Queen Of The Tortoises", children's book, Skotaville Publishers, SA
• 1991 "Molo! Zoleka", children's book, published and translated into four different South African languages by David Philip, SA
• 1992 "The Singing Dog", children's book, Skotaville Publishers, SA
• 1995 "Ma Zanendaba - A Mother's Search For Stories", children's book, published in English and Afrikaans by Knowledge Unlimited, SA

Inenekazi lodumo (Famous lady) Xhosa, published in 2005 by Sindiwe Magona and Gcina Mhlope Illus. by Pandora Alberts Pages 6 & 7
• 1995 Story in "The River That Went To The Sky", Kingfisher Anthology of African folklore, England
• 1996 "Love Child", Biographical Work, Peter Hammer Verlag, Germany
• 1997 "Kwesukesukela - Stories from Africa" in five languages pubished by Bona Magazine
• 1997 Awarded writers' fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy - work on the children's musical "Mata Mata"
• 1999 "Fudukazi's Magic" - Cambridge Univ. Press, this comes with CD and Video made in 2001 - Karl Becker of GM Storyworks.
• 1999 Recorded and released "Kwesuke - sukela" a storytelling audio tape that went with a book containing twelve of my stories, "Stories From Africa" or "Zimnandi Ngokuphindwa" in Zulu and Xhosa, sponsored by Joko Storytelling project.
• 1999 Published children's book "NALOHIMA - The Deaf Tortoise" by Gemsbok publishers NALOHIMA also won the Namibian Children's Book Forum Award only a month after its release.
• 2001 "Nozincwadi - Mother of Books" - Maskew Miller Longman, with CD and Video by Karl Becker as part of the Nozincwadi Road Show to promote reading in S. African schools
• 2002 English edition of "Love Child" has come out - Univ. of Natal Press
• 2002 "An African Mother Christmas" - Maskew Miller Longman
• 2003 "Stories of Africa" - University of Kwa Zulu Natal Press (Nominated for Exclusive Books "Publisher's Choice")
• 2003 Conception and writing of the multi-lingual books for "First Words in Print" - Centre For The Book, Maskew Miller Longman
• 2004 five early learning books in indigenous languages for "Siyakhula Series" - Oxford University Press (due for release in 2005)
• 2004 "The Story of Mazanendaba" published in Italian by Corraini Publishers, Mantova, Italy

Address: 83 Grey Park Road, The Bluff, Durban 4052 Tel 031- 467 2131 / 082 662 7368 E-mail address: Gcina@nozincwadi.com