Margaret Busby Ghanaian Playwright
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1943
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| Birthplace |
Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana)
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| Nationality |
Ghanaian
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| Occupation Text |
Publisher, Editor, Writer, Broadcaster
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| Occupation |
Playwright
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Margaret Yvonne Busby, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest publisher as well as the first black female book publisher in the UK when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992), and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2020, she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons". In 2021, she was honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, Busby was named as president of English PEN.
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