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Monique Roffey was born on 1965 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, is a Trinidadian-born British writer (born 1965). Discover Monique Roffey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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1965

Monique Pauline Roffey (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1965, to an English father and mother of French, Italian, Maltese and Lebanese descent.

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.

1987

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.

1990

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", 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."

2002

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..

Sun Dog (2002), set in west London, is a magical realist tale of psychological estrangement, identity loss and subsequent individuation.

2009

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

2011

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."

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."

2012

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.

2013

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.

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.

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.

Roffey has written six novels and a memoir.

Archipelago won the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, 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".

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.

2014

Roffey's 2014 novel, House of Ashes, is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad.

2017

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?"

2020

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.