Barbara Hall (edita)

**Barbara Hall** MBE (3 ga Fabrairu 1923 - 18 ga Afrilu 2022) ta kasance mai rubuta kalmomin shiga na Turanci, marubuciyar shawara kuma marubuciya. Tun daga farkon shekarun 1980 har zuwa lokacin da ta yi ritaya a 2010, ita ce Editan Crossword Puzzles na jaridar *Sunday Times* . A cikin aikinta na tsawon shekaru saba'in, ta gyara, ƙirƙira da saita wasanin gwada ilimi ga *jaridar Daily Mail*, *jaridar Yorkshire Post*, *jaridar Sunday Times* da *jaridar The Observer*, da kuma wasu jaridu da dama, wanda hakan ya sanya ta zama mai rubuta kalmomin shiga na Burtaniya mafi dadewa. 

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Barbara Hall a ranar 3 ga Fabrairu, 1923 a Derby, Ingila, kuma ta girma a Aston-on-Trent .  Mahaifinta Lawrence Shelton Taylor ya yi aiki a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya a matsayin mai aiki da rediyo da kuma mai kula da jiragen sama kafin ya zama akawu a kan layin dogo. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ya sake shiga RAF a matsayin mai ajiyar kaya da kuma mai horarwa. Mahaifiyarta Olive Taylor (wanda aka haifa a Bradbury) ta yi aiki a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya a Yammacin Yamma a Rundunar Sojojin Mata, kuma ta yi aiki a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu a matsayin malamin Braille .

Bayan samun tallafin karatu don halartar Makarantar Grammar Parkfield Cedars da ke Derby,  Hall ta buga kalmomin shiga na farko, lokacin tana da shekaru 15, a cikin bugun Arewa na *Daily Mail* a 1938. Wannan ya faru ne sakamakon cin nasara a gasa, wanda aka biya ta guineas 2. Ta yi niyyar zama malamar magana, bayan an karɓe ta don yin karatu a Kwalejin Kiɗa da Fasaha ta London . Duk da haka, shirinta ya wargaje sakamakon Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. Daga 1943 zuwa 1946, ta yi aiki tare da Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa ta Mata, tana aiki a matsayin mai rubuta lambobi, tana shirya odar jiragen ruwa na Rundunar Tekun Arewa. Bayan yaƙin, da kuma aurenta da ɗan jarida Richard Seymour Hall, ta haɓaka aikinta a matsayin mai tattara kalmomi da marubuci. 

## Sana'a
Iyalan Hall sun ƙaura zuwa Afirka a shekarar 1955,  inda ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a jaridar *Central African Mail*, wata jarida da mijinta ya gyara, wadda daga baya ta zama *Zambia Daily Mail* . A tsawon shekaru 12 da ta yi tana zaune a Arewacin Rhodesia (daga baya Zambia lokacin da ta zama ƙasa mai 'yancin kai a 1964), ta rubuta labarai da yawa. Shafi na shawara, "Tell me Josephine", yana ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun abubuwan da jaridar ta wallafa, kuma ya haifar da wani littafi,  wanda ya haɗa da gabatarwar Dr Kenneth Kaunda, Shugaban ƙasar Zambia na farko, wanda aka fassara zuwa harsuna sama da 19. Barbara Hall ta ci gaba da tallafawa aikin mijinta, tana rubuta labarai da wasanin gwada ilimi kafin da kuma bayan ya zama editan jaridar *Times of Zambia* . Yayin da take aiki a masana'antar jaridu a Zambia, ta haɗu da mutane da yawa masu daraja, ciki har da Jomo Kenyatta, Indira Gandhi da Chiang Kai-shek . Tana da matuƙar ƙaunar Zambia,  ta yi aiki tukuru don haɓaka 'yancin kanta, ta kafa ƙungiyar The Zambia Society, kuma ta kasance abokiyar kud da kud da Dr Kenneth Kaunda da iyalansa.

Bayan ta dawo Birtaniya a shekarar 1967, ta ci gaba da tattara kalmomin shiga da wasanin gwada ilimi, tare da labarai, sharhi da fasaloli daban-daban, waɗanda suka bayyana a cikin wallafe-wallafe daban-daban. Ta yi ƙwarewa a fannin wasanin gwada ilimi mai jigo kuma ta samar da da yawa daga cikinsu kan fannoni daban-daban, ciki har da layin dogo, jirgin ruwa, ruwan inabi, abinci da lambu. Ta sami goyon baya mai aminci ga tambayoyinta na Bookwise a cikin jaridar Sunday Times, kuma an watsa kalmomin shiga a duk faɗin duniya. Ana yi mata tambayoyi akai-akai ko kuma tana magana game da rayuwarta a matsayin mai tattara kalmomin shiga a BBC da sauran kafofin watsa labarai.

Ta sami digirin MBE a shekarar 2007 don ayyukan da ta yi wa masana'antar jarida. 

Hall ya yi ritaya daga *jaridar Sunday Times* a shekarar 2010,  yana da shekaru 87, duk da cewa ya ci gaba da tattara kalmomin shiga don bugu na ƙarshen mako na jaridar *The Australia* har zuwa ƙarshen 2011, kuma bisa ga tsarin sa-kai ga ƙungiyoyin agaji na gida na wasu shekaru.

## Rayuwar mutum da mutuwa
A tsawon shekaru 30 da aurenta da Richard Seymour Hall, tana da 'ya'ya biyar, dukkansu maza ne.   Sun sake aure a shekarar 1973, kuma ba ta sake yin aure ba.  Hall ta yi ritaya na ɗan lokaci a Camberwell, Kudancin London, kafin ta mutu kwatsam a gida a ranar 18 ga Afrilu, 2022, tana da shekaru 99.  Ɗanta Simon ya bayyana Hall a matsayin "mai karatu mai son *Guardian* kuma ɗan jam'iyyar Republican mai ƙwazo." 

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