You are here: Homepage Tag publishing Articles Margaret Busby at her desk in London, 1971 Photo: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images Fiction | Great Britain ”I want to bring Black female writers into the spotlight“ More than half a century ago, Margaret Busby became Britain’s first black woman publisher, upending the literary scene. Five decades later, her work is far from done Interview with Margaret Busby 06/01/2023 South-African author and Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut Photo: David Levenson / Getty Images Literature | South Africa “Books are very expensive in South Africa” The long shadows of apartheid: Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winner for “The Promise”, on the psychological effects of apartheid and South Africa’s enduring inequality Interview with Damon Galgut 11/30/2022 Illustration © Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Fiction | South Africa A novel from South Africa South African literature slipped from the international gaze after the end of apartheid. Books by black authors in particular rarely reached foreign readers. Now festivals, small publishers and the film industry are finally changing the picture By Niq Mhlongo 08/14/2022 Illustration: Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Fiction | South Africa Book clubs and the new Black literary scene Publishers in South Africa have long thought that Black communities do not read all that much. New book clubs are finally changing this picture By Outlwile Tsipane 08/14/2022 Publisher and editor Sharmaine Lovegrove Photo: Kate Berry Black and white thinking Critical thinking For a long time, diversity was not an issue in many literary publishing houses. Suddenly everyone wants diversity. About an industry in transition By Sharmaine Lovegrove 04/14/2022
Margaret Busby at her desk in London, 1971 Photo: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images Fiction | Great Britain ”I want to bring Black female writers into the spotlight“ More than half a century ago, Margaret Busby became Britain’s first black woman publisher, upending the literary scene. Five decades later, her work is far from done Interview with Margaret Busby 06/01/2023
South-African author and Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut Photo: David Levenson / Getty Images Literature | South Africa “Books are very expensive in South Africa” The long shadows of apartheid: Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winner for “The Promise”, on the psychological effects of apartheid and South Africa’s enduring inequality Interview with Damon Galgut 11/30/2022
Illustration © Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Fiction | South Africa A novel from South Africa South African literature slipped from the international gaze after the end of apartheid. Books by black authors in particular rarely reached foreign readers. Now festivals, small publishers and the film industry are finally changing the picture By Niq Mhlongo 08/14/2022
Illustration: Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Fiction | South Africa Book clubs and the new Black literary scene Publishers in South Africa have long thought that Black communities do not read all that much. New book clubs are finally changing this picture By Outlwile Tsipane 08/14/2022
Publisher and editor Sharmaine Lovegrove Photo: Kate Berry Black and white thinking Critical thinking For a long time, diversity was not an issue in many literary publishing houses. Suddenly everyone wants diversity. About an industry in transition By Sharmaine Lovegrove 04/14/2022
