Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press), won the Costa Novel Award, 2020 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, 2020 and longlisted for the Rathbones/Folio Award 2021. Her other Caribbean novels, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle and House of Ashes have been nominated for major awards (Costa, Orange, Encore etc). Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature in 2013. Her work has been translated into several languages. She is a co-founder of Writers Rebel within Extinction Rebellion. She is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and a tutor for the National Writers Centre.
Monique Roffey
Original Series
The rain started again
Monique Roffey on the 2008 Christmas flood in Trinidad, her first direct experience of the climate catastrophe.
21st October 2021
Original Series
Fish out of two waters
Trinidadian-British writer Monique Roffey explains how she uses her hybrid identity as a useful vantage point to inspire the creation of new work.
6th August 2021
Monique Roffey
“I think we’ve had enough of this historic, hysterical Freudian woman. I have every respect for Rhys, but we need new, different types of characters coming out of the region."
Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir.