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Allison & Busby ( A & B) ke kompone e e gatisang dibuka e e kwa Lontone, e simolotswe ke Clive Allison le Margaret Busby ka ngwaga wa 1967.[1][2][3] Kompone e e iteretse leina ka gonna e e di gogang kwa pele mo go tsa kgatiso.[4]

Motheo wa yone

[fetola | Fetola Motswedi]

Mo dingwageng tse di masome mabedi tsa ntlha fa A & B e simologa ka Motsheganong ngwaga wa 1967,[5] e gatisitse dibuka tsa bakwaadi ba tshwana le Sam Greenlee, Michael Moorcock, H. Rap Brown, Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa guy, Roy Heath, Aidan Higgins, Chester Himes, Adrian Henri, Michael Horovitz, C.L.R James, George Lamming, Geofffrey Grigson,Jill Murphy, Andrew Salkey, Ishmael Reed, Julius Lester, Alexis Lykiard, Colin MacInnes, Arthur Maimane, Adrian Mitchell, Ralph de Boissiere, Gordon Williams, Alan Burns, John Clute, James Ellroy, Giles Gordon, Clive Sinclair, Jack Trevor Story, John Edgar Wideman, Val Wilmer, Margaret Thomson Davis, Dermot Healy, Richard Stark, B. Traven, Simon Leys le ba bangwe.[6]

Dingwe tsa ditlhogo tse ba simolotseng ka tsone ke The Spook Who Sat by the Door (ka ngwaga wa 1969), Behold The Man (ngwaga wa 1969), The Final Programme (1969), The English Assassin (1972), The Worst Witch (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976), The Condition of Muzak (1977), Gloriana (1978), The Chairman's New Clother: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1979) le The True History of The Elephant Man (1980).


Kompone e ne ya tsewa ke W.H Allen Ltd ka ngwaga wa 1987, ya nna bontlha jwa Virgin Publishing[7] mme fa e sale ka nako eo e godile ebile e a phophoma ka fa tlase ga taolo ya bagogi ba ba farologaneng ba ba ikemetseng,[8] ba akaretsa Peter Day le David Shelley.[9] A&B jaanong ke ya mogatisi wa lotso lwa Spanish Javier Moll's Editorial Prensa Iberica.[10] Mokaedi wa gompieno o o simolotseng tiro ka ngwaga wa 2005[10] ke Susie Dunlop,[11]e gatisa dibuka tse di farologaneng go simolola ka tsa go tlola molao, tsa thuto, ditso, tse di itlhametsweng, tse di kgatlhisang, tsa matshelo a batho le tse di tlwaelesegileng.[12]


Ka nako ya fa kompone e simololwa, Margaret Busby e ne e le mme wa kwa UK o monnye go fetisa ebile e le motho montsho wa mme wa ntlha[13] go nna mogatisi, o tlogetse kompone ka ngwaga wa 1987.[14] Clive Allison o ne a tlhokafala ka ngwaga wa 2011, Phukwi a le masome mabedi le botlhano.[12]

At the time of the company's founding, Margaret Busby was the UK's youngest and the first black woman publisher; she left the company in 1987. Clive Allison died on 25 July 2011.

  1. Busby, Margaret (3 August 2011). "Clive Allison obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  2. Kingshill, Katie (7 September 2011). "Clive Allison: Publisher whose eclectic imprint was in the vanguard of independent houses". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  3. "Margaret Busby remembers Clive Allison". Poetry Book Society. 5 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  4. "Independent Publisher of the Month: Allison & Busby". amazon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009.
  5. Saipan Elegy and Other Poems by James Grady; A Stained Glass Raree Show by Libby Houston; Selected Poems by James Reeves — Allison & Busby, May 1967.
  6. Allison & Busby list of books, archINFORM.
  7. Virgin Group History, Funding Universe.
  8. "Co-founder of Allison & Busby dies". Allison & Busby website. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved October 2011.
  9. Caroline Dawnay and David Shelley, "Peter Day: a man of unerring human and literary insight", BookBrunch, 23 July 2014.
  10. 10.0 10.1 "New face at Allison & Busby", Publishing News Digital Archive, Kingston University Information Services, 25 February 2005.
  11. "Contact Us", A&B website.
  12. 12.0 12.1 Allison & Busby Books – Overview, Facebook.
  13. "Margaret Busby Profile."The Guardian.Retrieved December 2014.
  14. Carole Boyce Davies, "Women and Literature in the African Diaspora", in Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard (eds), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World., Springer, 2005, p. 384.