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Monique Roffey, the Glossary

Monique Pauline Roffey (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.^[1]

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21st-century British memoirists
English people of Maltese descent
Trinidad and Tobago novelists
Trinidad and Tobago people of English descent
Trinidad and Tobago people of French descent
Trinidad and Tobago people of Italian descent
Trinidad and Tobago people of Lebanese descent
Trinidad and Tobago people of Maltese descent
Trinidad and Tobago women novelists
Writers from Port of Spain

Andrew Miller (novelist)

Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist. Monique Roffey and Andrew Miller (novelist) are 21st-century British novelists, Alumni of the University of East Anglia and fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Arvon Foundation

The Arvon Foundation is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom that promotes creative writing.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Commonwealth Writers

Commonwealth Writers (established in 2011) is the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation.

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Costa Book Award for Novel

The Costa Book Award for Novel, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for novels, as part of the Costa Book Awards.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.

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DBC Pierre

Peter Warren Finlay (born in 1961), also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.

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Encore Award

The £15,000 Encore Award for the best second novel was first awarded in 1990.

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Goldsmiths Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award, founded in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the New Statesman. It is awarded annually to a piece of fiction that "breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form." It is limited to citizens and residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and to novels published by presses based in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

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Grande Riviere

Grande Riviere is a village on the north coast of Trinidad located between Toco and Matelot.

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Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt

The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup d'état attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990.

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Lancaster University

Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

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Magic realism

Magic realism, magical realism or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.

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Maraval

Maraval is one of the northern suburbs of Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, a valley in northern Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago.

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NGC Bocas Lit Fest

The NGC Bocas Lit Fest is the Trinidad and Tobago literary festival that takes place annually during the last weekend of April in Port of Spain.

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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, inaugurated in 2011 by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, is an annual literary award for books by Caribbean writers published in the previous year.

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Olive Senior

Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ondaatje Prize

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature.

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Orion (magazine)

Orion is an advertisement-free nonprofit quarterly magazine focused on nature, culture, and place addressing environmental and social issues.

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Orwell Prize

The Orwell Prize is a British prize for political writing.

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Peepal Tree Press

Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books.

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Port of Spain

Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.

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Republic of Consciousness Prize

The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths.

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Rowan Pelling

Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born 17 January 1968) is a British journalist, broadcaster, writer and stand-up comedian who first achieved note as the editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, the Erotic Review.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Shivanee Ramlochan

Shivanee Ramlochan (born 1986) is a Trinidadian poet, arts reporter and blogger.

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St George's College, Weybridge

St George's Weybridge is an independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational Josephite day school in Surrey, taking pupils from 3 to 18.

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The Amorist

The Amorist is an English-language erotic magazine launched in 2017 in the United Kingdom.

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The Mermaid of Black Conch

The Mermaid of Black Conch is the sixth novel by Monique Roffey, published in 2020.

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The Writers' Prize

The Writers' Prize, previously known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first two years, 2014–2015.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Trinidad Express Newspapers

The Trinidad and Tobago Express, better known as Daily Express (and the weekend editions Saturday Express and Sunday Express), is one of three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago.

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The Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), is an international fellowship of Buddhists.

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University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Wasafiri

Wasafiri is a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing. Founded in 1984, the magazine derives its name from a Swahili word meaning "travellers" that is etymologically linked with the Arabic word "safari". The magazine holds that many of those who created the literatures in which it is particularly interested "...have all in some sense been cultural travellers either through migration, transportation or else, in the more metaphorical sense of seeking an imagined cultural 'home'." Funded by the Arts Council England, Wasafiri is "a journal of post-colonial literature that pays attention to the wealth of Black and diasporic writers worldwide.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Roffey

Monique Roffey, the Glossary

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See also

21st-century British memoirists

English people of Maltese descent

Trinidad and Tobago novelists

Trinidad and Tobago people of English descent

Trinidad and Tobago people of French descent

Trinidad and Tobago people of Italian descent

Trinidad and Tobago people of Lebanese descent

Trinidad and Tobago people of Maltese descent

Trinidad and Tobago women novelists

Writers from Port of Spain

References