Appreciation post for the #2020BookerPrize’s wonderful chair of judges, Margaret Busby! Watch Margaret announce the winner in tonight’s ceremony, livestreamed from 7pm GMT on BBC Arts Digital (link in bio) and BBC iPlayer or listen live from 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Margaret Busby was born in Ghana and educated in the UK. She became the first black woman publisher – and, at the time, the youngest publisher – in Britain when she co-founded Allison and Busby in 1967. An independent editor, writer, broadcaster and critic since the 1990s, Margaret has contributed to many publications – including The Guardian, The Observer, New Statesman and TLS – and judged numerous literary prizes, including the Caine Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Orange Award for New Writers and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her writing for the stage includes Sankofa (1999), Yaa Asantewaa – Warrior Queen (2001) and An African Cargo (2007), and her radio adaptations comprise work by Jean Rh...