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Monique Roffey

January 01, 1970

Monique Pauline Roffey FRSL (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist. Her novels have been much acclaimed, winning awards including the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for Archipelago, and the Costa Book of the Year award, for The Mermaid of Black Conch in 2021.

Monique Roffey
FRSL
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Port of Spain, Trinidad
NationalityTrinidadian-British
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Lancaster University
Notable workThe White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009); Archipelago (2012); The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020)
AwardsOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Costa Book of the Year award

Biography edit

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1965, to an English father and mother of French, Italian, Maltese and Lebanese descent.[1] Roffey was educated at St Andrew's School in Maraval, Trinidad, and then in the UK at St Maur's Convent, and St George's College, Weybridge. She graduated with a BA in English and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1987, and later completed an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.[2] Between 2002 and 2006 she was a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation.

Roffey is an experienced creative writing tutor and has taught for numerous creative writing providers and organisations, including The National Writers Centre, First Story, The Arvon Foundation and English PEN. She is a Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching creative writing on the novel route MA..[3] Since 2013, she has been a literary activist and advocate for emerging writers in Trinidad, teaching for COSTAATT, Bocas Lit Fest and privately in Port of Spain, where she set up the St James Writers’ Room in 2014 and numerous other writing workshops since.[4] She has also co-led writing retreats in Trinidad in collaboration with other Caribbean writers such as Professor Loretta Collins-Klobah in partnership with Mount Plaisir Estate in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Roffey has dual nationality, British and Trinidadian. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a co-founder of the group Writers Rebel inside Extinction Rebellion. She is also a mitra of the Triratna Buddhist order.[5]

Works edit

Roffey has written six novels and a memoir. Sun Dog (2002), set in west London, is a magical realist tale of psychological estrangement, identity loss and subsequent individuation. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009; shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize and the 2011 Encore Award), is the story of European ex-colonials living in Trinidad during the island's early Independence years and their subsequent process of creolisation. It was hailed by Commonwealth Prize-winner Olive Senior, who said:

"…it breaks entirely new ground. It is a major contribution to the New Wave of Caribbean writing: energetic, uncompromising, bold in the choice of narrative devices and a great read."

It has been published to critical acclaim in the UK, United States and Europe.

Roffey's 2011 memoir, With the Kisses of His Mouth, is a personal account of a mid-life quest for sexual liberation and self-identification other than the aspirant hetero-normative model. It has been characterised as "a subversive work that transcends the author's personal story: it stands alone in the chasm that has opened between feminist literature and the belles du jour brigade."[6]

Her novel Archipelago, published in July 2012, set in the aftermath of a flood, examines climate change from the perspective of a man from the southern Caribbean. Andrew Miller (Costa Award winner, 2011) said: "Archipelago is beautifully done. There's a warmth to it, an exuberance and a wisdom, that makes the experience of reading it feel not just pleasurable but somehow instructive. It's funny, sometimes bitingly poignant. And how well Roffey writes a male central character. A brilliant piece of storytelling." Archipelago won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,[7][8][9] whose judges commended it for its "exploration of the greater Caribbean space in which is embedded a real-life story of trauma and loss and ultimately redemption that is both contemporary and compelling".[10] The novel was judged the winner of the fiction category of the prize, and at the Bocas Lit Fest was announced on 27 April 2013 as the best overall book from all categories.[11]

Roffey's 2014 novel, House of Ashes, is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad.[12] Ronald Adamolekun, for Wasafiri magazine, said: House of Ashes will be remembered as the most authoritative fictionalised account of the 1990 Trinidad and Tobago revolution, arguably the darkest moment of the island’s history."

The Telegraph called it "vigorous, grimly absorbing tale",[13] while The Observer′s reviewer concluded: "Roffey's writing is raw and visceral and she thrusts her readers headlong into the very middle of the action, her pen as powerful as the butts of the guns shoved in her hostages' backs."[14]

A fifth novel, The Tryst, published in July 2017, was sold twice, first to Simon and Schuster UK, and then to independent press Dodo Ink. Having worked on it, on and off, for 14 years, Roffey revisits the tale of Adam's first wife, Lilith, and examines the common but taboo issue of celibacy within marriage. Like much of Roffey's work, it weaves magical realism into a contemporary setting. Many well-known literary writers, sex writers and sex workers have applauded The Tryst. DBC Pierre said of it: "Not a shade of grey within a mile of this book. What makes The Tryst an unexploded virus isn't just the quality and brightness of Roffey's writing on sex, even as it uncovers inner glades between flesh and fantasy where sex resides – but the taunting clarity of why those glades stay covered. A throbbing homewrecker of a tale, too late to call Fifty Shades of Red." Hollywood actor Gabriel Byrne said, "The Tryst is a gorgeously written page-turner, deceptive in its simplicity. Monique Roffey writes an erotically charged fable that mixes the real with the mythological, a truly unsettling and disturbing novel. She writes about lust and sex in a way that is thrillingly sexy and beautiful."

Rowan Pelling, editor of The Amorist, also said: "The Tryst is a sly, feral, witty, offbeat erotic novella that unsettles the reader, even as it arouses. There are sex scenes of breathtaking audacity. What would any of us do if an irresistible sex daemon broke and entered our domestic lives, leaving havoc in her amoral wake? Monique Roffey knows that the real question about human desire is whether we even recognise our deepest yearnings. How can anyone resist what they have never even dreamt of?"

The Mermaid of Black Conch was first published in April 2020 by Peepal Tree Press and won the Costa Fiction Award 2020 and the Costa Book of the Year, 2020. It was nominated for seven awards in total, being shortlisted for the Rathbones/Folio Prize, 2021, The Goldsmiths Award, 2020 and the Republic of Consciousness Award, 2021. It was published in paperback by Vintage Books, in June 2021. It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week in August 2021. Film Four and Dorothy Street Pictures have bought the screen adaptation rights. Roffey's sixth novel The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020) won the Costa Book of the Year award, announced in January 2021.[15]

A writer of dual nationality and perspective, Roffey writes about sex, fatherhood, the Caribbean, mermaids, Lilith and other outcasts, be they the terminally awkward August Chalmin (in Sun Dog), the left-behind Europeans in Trinidad (George and Sabine Harwood in The White Woman on the Green Bicycle), a cursed mermaid, a celibate wife or indeed herself. Stylistically, her books can be linked in terms of post-modern narrative choices, in that they often weave together magical realism, real-life historical characters and events, biography and autobiography to tackle themes of alienation and otherness.

Publications edit

Books edit

  • Sun Dog (2002), Scribner, Simon & Schuster UK[16]
  • The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009), Simon & Schuster UK[17]
  • The Global Village, Tell Tales (co-editor; 2009), Peepal Tree Press.
  • With the Kisses of His Mouth (memoir; 2011), Simon & Schuster UK[18]
  • Archipelago (2012), Simon & Schuster UK[19]
  • House of Ashes (2014), Simon & Schuster UK[20]
  • The Tryst (2017), Dodo Ink
  • The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020), Peepal Tree Press[21]
  • Passiontide (2024), Harvill Secker

Selected shorter writings edit

  • "Finale" (short story; 2005), in New Writing 13, Picador
  • "'Please sit down, I have something shocking to say…'", The Guardian, 18 June 2011.
  • "Women and sex: intimate adventurers", The Guardian, Comment is free, 6 July 2011.
  • "The Essay: Why do women who dare to write about their sexual life still face the pillory?", The Independent, 15 September 2012.
  • "Private Notes Made Public – An Essay", Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 62, December, 2016.
  • "Lotus, Nun, Mysterious: some brief notes, at 51, of a hetaera woman", Advantages of Age, August 2016.
  • "I was 41, single and looking for pleasure", The Times, 27 June 2017.
  • "So long to my sexless life - now I'm out of the sexual mainstream I finally feel alive", The Telegraph, 3 July 2017.

Awards edit

Further reading edit

  • Machado Sáez, Elena (2015), "Messy Intimacies: Postcolonial Romance in Ana Menéndez, Dionne Brand, and Monique Roffey", Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, ISBN 978-0-8139-3705-2.
  • Owen, Katie. "A Man for All Seasons; New Fiction". Review of Sun Dog, by Monique Roffey. The Times, 15 June 2002: 14.
  • Woodhead, Cameron. Review of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey. Age, 27 June 2009: 26.

References edit

  1. ^ "Monique Roffey: 'I wanted what my parents had'", The Guardian, 8 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Success Stories", English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University.
  3. ^ "Staff Profile: Dr Monique Roffey", Department of English, Manchester metropolitan University.
  4. ^ Monique Roffey biography, Royal Literary Fund.
  5. ^ "AofA People: Monique Roffey - Author, Lecturer" (interview), Advantages of Age, 15 August 2017.
  6. ^ Kapka Kassabova, "Archipelago by Monique Roffey – review", The Guardian, 27 July 2012.
  7. ^ Julien Neaves, "T&T writer takes top Bocas prize", Trinidad Express Newspapers, 28 April 2013.
  8. ^ "Archipelago wins the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2013", Blake Friedmann, 29 April 2013.
  9. ^ Tanya Batson-Savage, "Archipelago by Monique Roffey Cops Bocas Prize 2013", Susumba, 30 April 2012.
  10. ^ "Trinidad-Born Author Wins Regional Prize For Literature", The Gleaner, 29 April 2013.
  11. ^ "Trinis triumph at Bocas Lit Fest", Newsday, 2 May 2013.
  12. ^ "Monique Roffey launches latest novel House of Ashes", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 28 October 2014.
  13. ^ Ian Thomson, "House of Ashes by Monique Roffey, review: 'knuckle-whitening'", The Telegraph, 22 July 2014.
  14. ^ Lucy Scholes, "House of Ashes review – Monique Roffey's Caribbean coup d'etat", The Observer, 31 August 2014.
  15. ^ Flood, Alison (26 January 2021). "'Utterly original' Monique Roffey wins Costa book of the year". The Guardian.
  16. ^ Sun Dog page at Simon and Schuster UK.
  17. ^ The White Woman on the Green Bicycle page at Simon and Schuster UK.
  18. ^ With the Kisses of His Mouth page at Simon and Schuster UK.
  19. ^ Archipelago page 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Simon and Schuster UK.
  20. ^ House of Ashes page at Simon and Schuster UK.
  21. ^ "Monique Roffey | Peepal Tree Press". www.peepaltreepress.com. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  22. ^ . Archived from the original on 26 February 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  23. ^ The Encore Award, 2011 Shortlist. 3 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ Essiba Small (15 July 2013). "Bocas winner's cover goes Underground". Trinidad Express. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  25. ^ The 2014 Orion Book Award 25 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Orion magazine.
  26. ^ "The Mermaid of Black Conch". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  27. ^ "Folio Prize 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  28. ^ Wild, Stephi. "RSL Announces 60 New Fellows and Honorary Fellows For 2022". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

External links edit

  • Official Website
  • Staff Profile at MMU, Department of English
  • Skyros Course Facilitator
  • British Council Writers
  • Interview by Arifa Akbar: "5 minutes with Monique Roffey", The Independent, 24 July 2009.
  • Amanda Smyth Interviews Monique Roffey: 2010 "Trini and Amanda", Writers' Hub, 2 August 2010.
  • David Bainbridge, "Monique Roffey: 'My 40s have been boom years, action-packed'", The Observer, 4 March 2012.
  • "Roffey’s odyssey With the Kisses of His Mouth to Archipelago", Trinidad Guardian, 6 May 2012.
  • Claire Allfree, "Monique Roffey: My soul lies firmly in the Caribbean", London Metro, 19 July 2012.
  • "Monique Roffey takes a voyage of discovery", The Herald Scotland, 3 October 2012.
  • Shivanee Ramlochan, "Braving the Sea", Trinidad Guardian, 16 September 2012.
  • Interview, Small Talk, Financial Times, 2 November 2014, "Q&A with author Monique Roffey"
  • Interview by Danuta Kean, Monique Roffey interview: "Sex and power inform a very female coup", The Independent on Sunday, 22 July 2014
  • Shivanee Ramlochan, "Big Caribbean Books of 2014", The Trinidad Guardian, 21 December 2014
  • "Monique Roffey: The author on father figures, the nation's narcissism and New Year reflections" (interview), Saturday Independent, 28 December 2014
  • White Creole Conversations, Fresh Milk, 2015
  • Interview, Parallel Worlds, by Sophie Harris, Wasafiri, Issue 83, Autumn 2015
  • Kei Miller, "Marlon James’ Man Booker Prize heralds new Caribbean Era",The Guardian, 14 October 2015
  • Simon Lee, "The Write of Retreating", The Trinidad Guardian, 28 January 2016
  • Interview, by Suzanne Portnoy, The Advantages of Age
  • Review, The Guardian, 21 July 2017
  • Review, TLS, 10 October 2017
  • Review Shiny New books
  • Review Lonesome Reader, 7 July 2017
  • Interview Wasafari

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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Monique Roffey news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2012 Learn how and when to remove this message Monique Pauline Roffey FRSL born 1965 is a Trinidadian born British writer and memoirist Her novels have been much acclaimed winning awards including the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Archipelago and the Costa Book of the Year award for The Mermaid of Black Conch in 2021 Monique RoffeyFRSLBorn1965 age 58 59 Port of Spain TrinidadNationalityTrinidadian BritishAlma materUniversity of East AngliaLancaster UniversityNotable workThe White Woman on the Green Bicycle 2009 Archipelago 2012 The Mermaid of Black Conch 2020 AwardsOCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean LiteratureCosta Book of the Year award Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Publications 3 1 Books 3 2 Selected shorter writings 4 Awards 5 Further reading 6 References 7 External linksBiography editBorn in Port of Spain Trinidad in 1965 to an English father and mother of French Italian Maltese and Lebanese descent 1 Roffey was educated at St Andrew s School in Maraval Trinidad and then in the UK at St Maur s Convent and St George s College Weybridge She graduated with a BA in English and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1987 and later completed an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University 2 Between 2002 and 2006 she was a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation Roffey is an experienced creative writing tutor and has taught for numerous creative writing providers and organisations including The National Writers Centre First Story The Arvon Foundation and English PEN She is a Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University teaching creative writing on the novel route MA 3 Since 2013 she has been a literary activist and advocate for emerging writers in Trinidad teaching for COSTAATT Bocas Lit Fest and privately in Port of Spain where she set up the St James Writers Room in 2014 and numerous other writing workshops since 4 She has also co led writing retreats in Trinidad in collaboration with other Caribbean writers such as Professor Loretta Collins Klobah in partnership with Mount Plaisir Estate in Grande Riviere Trinidad Roffey has dual nationality British and Trinidadian She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a co founder of the group Writers Rebel inside Extinction Rebellion She is also a mitra of the Triratna Buddhist order 5 Works editRoffey has written six novels and a memoir Sun Dog 2002 set in west London is a magical realist tale of psychological estrangement identity loss and subsequent individuation The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 2009 shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize and the 2011 Encore Award is the story of European ex colonials living in Trinidad during the island s early Independence years and their subsequent process of creolisation It was hailed by Commonwealth Prize winner Olive Senior who said it breaks entirely new ground It is a major contribution to the New Wave of Caribbean writing energetic uncompromising bold in the choice of narrative devices and a great read It has been published to critical acclaim in the UK United States and Europe Roffey s 2011 memoir With the Kisses of His Mouth is a personal account of a mid life quest for sexual liberation and self identification other than the aspirant hetero normative model It has been characterised as a subversive work that transcends the author s personal story it stands alone in the chasm that has opened between feminist literature and the belles du jour brigade 6 Her novel Archipelago published in July 2012 set in the aftermath of a flood examines climate change from the perspective of a man from the southern Caribbean Andrew Miller Costa Award winner 2011 said Archipelago is beautifully done There s a warmth to it an exuberance and a wisdom that makes the experience of reading it feel not just pleasurable but somehow instructive It s funny sometimes bitingly poignant And how well Roffey writes a male central character A brilliant piece of storytelling Archipelago won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 7 8 9 whose judges commended it for its exploration of the greater Caribbean space in which is embedded a real life story of trauma and loss and ultimately redemption that is both contemporary and compelling 10 The novel was judged the winner of the fiction category of the prize and at the Bocas Lit Fest was announced on 27 April 2013 as the best overall book from all categories 11 Roffey s 2014 novel House of Ashes is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad 12 Ronald Adamolekun for Wasafiri magazine said House of Ashes will be remembered as the most authoritative fictionalised account of the 1990 Trinidad and Tobago revolution arguably the darkest moment of the island s history The Telegraph called it vigorous grimly absorbing tale 13 while The Observer s reviewer concluded Roffey s writing is raw and visceral and she thrusts her readers headlong into the very middle of the action her pen as powerful as the butts of the guns shoved in her hostages backs 14 A fifth novel The Tryst published in July 2017 was sold twice first to Simon and Schuster UK and then to independent press Dodo Ink Having worked on it on and off for 14 years Roffey revisits the tale of Adam s first wife Lilith and examines the common but taboo issue of celibacy within marriage Like much of Roffey s work it weaves magical realism into a contemporary setting Many well known literary writers sex writers and sex workers have applauded The Tryst DBC Pierre said of it Not a shade of grey within a mile of this book What makes The Tryst an unexploded virus isn t just the quality and brightness of Roffey s writing on sex even as it uncovers inner glades between flesh and fantasy where sex resides but the taunting clarity of why those glades stay covered A throbbing homewrecker of a tale too late to call Fifty Shades of Red Hollywood actor Gabriel Byrne said The Tryst is a gorgeously written page turner deceptive in its simplicity Monique Roffey writes an erotically charged fable that mixes the real with the mythological a truly unsettling and disturbing novel She writes about lust and sex in a way that is thrillingly sexy and beautiful Rowan Pelling editor of The Amorist also said The Tryst is a sly feral witty offbeat erotic novella that unsettles the reader even as it arouses There are sex scenes of breathtaking audacity What would any of us do if an irresistible sex daemon broke and entered our domestic lives leaving havoc in her amoral wake Monique Roffey knows that the real question about human desire is whether we even recognise our deepest yearnings How can anyone resist what they have never even dreamt of The Mermaid of Black Conch was first published in April 2020 by Peepal Tree Press and won the Costa Fiction Award 2020 and the Costa Book of the Year 2020 It was nominated for seven awards in total being shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 The Goldsmiths Award 2020 and the Republic of Consciousness Award 2021 It was published in paperback by Vintage Books in June 2021 It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week in August 2021 Film Four and Dorothy Street Pictures have bought the screen adaptation rights Roffey s sixth novel The Mermaid of Black Conch 2020 won the Costa Book of the Year award announced in January 2021 15 A writer of dual nationality and perspective Roffey writes about sex fatherhood the Caribbean mermaids Lilith and other outcasts be they the terminally awkward August Chalmin in Sun Dog the left behind Europeans in Trinidad George and Sabine Harwood in The White Woman on the Green Bicycle a cursed mermaid a celibate wife or indeed herself Stylistically her books can be linked in terms of post modern narrative choices in that they often weave together magical realism real life historical characters and events biography and autobiography to tackle themes of alienation and otherness Publications editBooks edit Sun Dog 2002 Scribner Simon amp Schuster UK 16 The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 2009 Simon amp Schuster UK 17 The Global Village Tell Tales co editor 2009 Peepal Tree Press With the Kisses of His Mouth memoir 2011 Simon amp Schuster UK 18 Archipelago 2012 Simon amp Schuster UK 19 House of Ashes 2014 Simon amp Schuster UK 20 The Tryst 2017 Dodo Ink The Mermaid of Black Conch 2020 Peepal Tree Press 21 Passiontide 2024 Harvill Secker Selected shorter writings edit Finale short story 2005 in New Writing 13 Picador Please sit down I have something shocking to say The Guardian 18 June 2011 Women and sex intimate adventurers The Guardian Comment is free 6 July 2011 The Essay Why do women who dare to write about their sexual life still face the pillory The Independent 15 September 2012 Private Notes Made Public An Essay Caribbean Quarterly Volume 62 December 2016 Lotus Nun Mysterious some brief notes at 51 of a hetaera woman Advantages of Age August 2016 I was 41 single and looking for pleasure The Times 27 June 2017 So long to my sexless life now I m out of the sexual mainstream I finally feel alive The Telegraph 3 July 2017 Awards edit2010 Orange Prize shortlisted for The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 22 2011 Encore Award shortlisted for The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 23 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature winner of overall and fiction categories for Archipelago 24 2014 Orion Book Award shortlisted for Archipelago 25 2015 Costa Book Awards shortlisted for House of Ashes 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature longlist fiction for House of Ashes 2020 Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted for The Mermaid of Black Conch 26 2021 Costa Book of the Year award for The Mermaid of Black Conch 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlisted for The Mermaid of Black 27 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlisted for The Mermaid of Black Conch 2021 The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction longlisted for The Mermaid of Black Conch 2021 Ondaatje Prize for writing that evokes the spirit of a place longlisted for The Mermaid of Black Conch 2021 OCM Bocas Fiction Award shortlisted for The Mermaid of Black Conch 2022 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 28 Further reading editMachado Saez Elena 2015 Messy Intimacies Postcolonial Romance in Ana Menendez Dionne Brand and Monique Roffey Market Aesthetics The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction Charlottesville University of Virginia Press ISBN 978 0 8139 3705 2 Owen Katie A Man for All Seasons New Fiction Review of Sun Dog by Monique Roffey The Times 15 June 2002 14 Woodhead Cameron Review of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey Age 27 June 2009 26 References edit Monique Roffey I wanted what my parents had The Guardian 8 May 2010 Success Stories English Literature and Creative Writing Lancaster University Staff Profile Dr Monique Roffey Department of English Manchester metropolitan University Monique Roffey biography Royal Literary Fund AofA People Monique Roffey Author Lecturer interview Advantages of Age 15 August 2017 Kapka Kassabova Archipelago by Monique Roffey review The Guardian 27 July 2012 Julien Neaves T amp T writer takes top Bocas prize Trinidad Express Newspapers 28 April 2013 Archipelago wins the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2013 Blake Friedmann 29 April 2013 Tanya Batson Savage Archipelago by Monique Roffey Cops Bocas Prize 2013 Susumba 30 April 2012 Trinidad Born Author Wins Regional Prize For Literature The Gleaner 29 April 2013 Trinis triumph at Bocas Lit Fest Newsday 2 May 2013 Monique Roffey launches latest novel House of Ashes Trinidad and Tobago Guardian 28 October 2014 Ian Thomson House of Ashes by Monique Roffey review knuckle whitening The Telegraph 22 July 2014 Lucy Scholes House of Ashes review Monique Roffey s Caribbean coup d etat The Observer 31 August 2014 Flood Alison 26 January 2021 Utterly original Monique Roffey wins Costa book of the year The Guardian Sun Dog page at Simon and Schuster UK The White Woman on the Green Bicycle page at Simon and Schuster UK With the Kisses of His Mouth page at Simon and Schuster UK Archipelago page Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Simon and Schuster UK House of Ashes page at Simon and Schuster UK Monique Roffey Peepal Tree Press www peepaltreepress com Retrieved 5 September 2020 Women s Prize for Fiction formerly the Orange Prize 2010 Archive Archived from the original on 26 February 2016 Retrieved 3 May 2013 The Encore Award 2011 Shortlist Archived 3 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine Essiba Small 15 July 2013 Bocas winner s cover goes Underground Trinidad Express Retrieved 26 August 2013 The 2014 Orion Book Award Archived 25 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Orion magazine The Mermaid of Black Conch Goldsmiths University of London Retrieved 12 November 2020 Folio Prize 2021 shortlist announced Books Publishing 11 February 2021 Retrieved 11 February 2021 Wild Stephi RSL Announces 60 New Fellows and Honorary Fellows For 2022 BroadwayWorld com Retrieved 23 June 2023 External links editOfficial Website Staff Profile at MMU Department of English Skyros Course Facilitator British Council Writers Interview by Arifa Akbar 5 minutes with Monique Roffey The Independent 24 July 2009 Amanda Smyth Interviews Monique Roffey 2010 Trini and Amanda Writers Hub 2 August 2010 David Bainbridge Monique Roffey My 40s have been boom years action packed The Observer 4 March 2012 Roffey s odyssey With the Kisses of His Mouth to Archipelago Trinidad Guardian 6 May 2012 Claire Allfree Monique Roffey My soul lies firmly in the Caribbean London Metro 19 July 2012 Monique Roffey takes a voyage of discovery The Herald Scotland 3 October 2012 Shivanee Ramlochan Braving the Sea Trinidad Guardian 16 September 2012 Interview Small Talk Financial Times 2 November 2014 Q amp A with author Monique Roffey Interview by Danuta Kean Monique Roffey interview Sex and power inform a very female coup The Independent on Sunday 22 July 2014 Shivanee Ramlochan Big Caribbean Books of 2014 The Trinidad Guardian 21 December 2014 Monique Roffey The author on father figures the nation s narcissism and New Year reflections interview Saturday Independent 28 December 2014 White Creole Conversations Fresh Milk 2015 Interview Parallel Worlds by Sophie Harris Wasafiri Issue 83 Autumn 2015 Kei Miller Marlon James Man Booker Prize heralds new Caribbean Era The Guardian 14 October 2015 Simon Lee The Write of Retreating The Trinidad Guardian 28 January 2016 Interview by Suzanne Portnoy The Advantages of Age Review The Guardian 21 July 2017 Review TLS 10 October 2017 Review Shiny New books Review Lonesome Reader 7 July 2017 Interview Wasafari Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Monique Roffey amp oldid 1220531325, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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