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Monique Roffey
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Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Since then she has worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex, Chichester and Greenwich universities.... Read full bio

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Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
A. Watching the leather back turtles migrate to Matura Beach, Trinidad
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Biography

Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Since then she has worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex, Chichester and Greenwich universities. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novels sun dog, and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 20101, and the Encore Award 2011. She has also written a memoir, With the Kisses of His Mouth. Read more about her at www.moniqueroffey.co.uk.