Biography
Margaret Busby OBE, Hon. FRSL, editor, broadcaster and writer, was born in Ghana and educated in the UK. She became Britain’s youngest and first black woman publisher when in 1967 she co-founded Allison & Busby, of which she was editorial director for 20 years. She compiled the pioneering anthology Daughters of Africa (1992), and 2019’s follow-up, New Daughters of Africa. Honours she has received include the 2015 Henry Swanzy Award, and the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
All events with Margaret Busby
2019 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
05 May 2019
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AV Room
Remembering Andrea Levy
04 May 2019
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Old Fire Station
The five most important things you don’t know about publishing / The art of the blurb / Writing to the world
01 May 2019
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
AV Room
Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
30 Apr 2015
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
AV Room