# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxZLTLjYB0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24487724-thebookerprizes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-11-19T12:08:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

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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 Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Sam Selvon and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
 
In 1992, Margaret compiled the pioneering anthology Daughters of Africa, which brought together writing by more than 200 women of African descent. Her follow-up, New Daughters of Africa, added another 200 writers and was published to great acclaim last year. All 200 contributors to that volume donated their fees in order to set up a new scholarship for a black, female student ordinarily resident in Africa to do a postgraduate degree in Literature or Translation at SOAS, University of London.
 
A long-time cultural activist, Margaret has worked continuously for diversity within the publishing industry. She has been awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s prestigious Benson Medal, and the Royal African Society’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. She was appointed OBE for services to literature and publishing in 2006.
 
Photo credit Val Wilmer.
 
#2020BookerPrize #FinestFiction #WomeninPublishing

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| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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