Tag: Monique Roffey

  • On Being Other: Primadonna 2021 Primadonna Festival2022-02-11 Join writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt as she introduces this year’s Costa winner Monique Roffey, author of the remarkable novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, and Natalie Morris, whose debut title Mixed/Other came out in 2021. Together they explore shared themes of otherness, outsider

  • I’m a bi-national writer based in East London. My identity is mixed and fluid in that I was born in Port of Spain, (a city I frequently return to), but I’m also half English. Via my mother, I have Italian, Maltese and Middle Eastern blood.