Tag: Margaret Busby
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Margaret Busby to headline Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers 2024
Margaret Busby is the headliner of the Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers 2024 to be hosted in South Africa on Sunday, March 10, 2024. The Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers is an initiative hosted by the University of Johannesburg’s Johannesburg Institute of Advance Studies. Hosted for the first time in 2023, it showcased and celebrated…
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Neue Töchter Afrikas launches in Cologne, Germany.
Neue Töchter Afrikas, the German sister of the anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Christa Morgenrath and Eva Wernecke launched in Cologne, Germany on June 20, 2023. New Daughters of Africa (Myriad 2019) is an anthology edited by Margaret Busby that features the writing of over 200 women writers in Africa and its diaspora.…
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Margaret Busby is new English PEN President
Margaret Busby was appointed the president of English PEN on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. English PEN, founded in 1921, is one of the world’s first non-governmental organisations and among the first international bodies advocating for human rights. It was the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than…
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Margaret Busby is Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022 headliner.
Margaret Busby has today been revealed to be the headliner for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022. The festival runs from August 26-28, 2022. The African Book Festival featuring some of the leading writers in Africa and its diaspora has been hosted in Berlin, Germany since 2018. It has established itself as a leading meeting place…
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Margaret Busby, Lemn Sissay are Booker Prize 2020 judges.
Margaret Busby and Lemn Sissay were announced as judges of the Booker Prize 2020 on January 6, 2019. The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of the previous African winners…
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Africa Writes Bristol 2019 festival to celebrate African writing.
Africa Writes Bristol 2019 is set to celebrate contemporary literature and thought from Africa and the diaspora from June 30 – July 4, 2019. Africa Writes Bristol 2019, co-produced by TJ Dema and Kate Wallis, is an offshoot of the popular London, UK based Africa Writes festival that has been running since 2014. It is…
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” at 60 celebration
Chinua Achebe’s work Things Fall Apart at 60 was celebrated with readings by some of the most well-known African writers working today at the South Bank Centre in London, UK on April 15, 2018. In 1958, Things Fall Apart by Nigeria author Chinua Achebe was published. The novel chronicled pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the…