July's People

July's People
	First edition cover (RSA)
Author	Nadine Gordimer
Language	English
Genre	Alternate history
Publisher	Ravan/Taurus (RSA); Jonathan Cape (UK); Viking Press (US)
Publication date	1981
Publication place	South Africa
Published in English	1981
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	195
ISBN	9780747578383

July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war.^[1] Unlike Gordimer's earlier work, the novel was ignored by the apartheid government's censor, though the book's South African publisher was later raided by the Security Police.^[2]

^ Erritouni, Ali (Winter 2006). "Apartheid Inequality and Postapartheid Utopia in Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"". Research in African Literatures. 37 (4): 68–84.
^ "For Ravan the police campaign took an extreme turn in 1987....In March that year its offices were firebombed, a few days after 'thieves' broke into the premises, stealing a significant amount of money and pointedly spray-painting slogans on the walls of the offices, saying 'Raven [sic] Communist Pigs' and 'We come back'." Peter D. McDonald, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), 154.

[1] Erritouni, Ali (Winter 2006). "Apartheid Inequality and Postapartheid Utopia in Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"". Research in African Literatures. 37 (4): 68–84.

[2] "For Ravan the police campaign took an extreme turn in 1987....In March that year its offices were firebombed, a few days after 'thieves' broke into the premises, stealing a significant amount of money and pointedly spray-painting slogans on the walls of the offices, saying 'Raven [sic] Communist Pigs' and 'We come back'." Peter D. McDonald, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), 154.

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