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May 2014 |
Library gets Roffey works
Roffey who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad has authored a memoir and novels including Sun Dog (2002), The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009), the memoir With the Kisses of His Mouth (2011), Archipelago (2012) and forthcoming is House of Ashes (2014). She was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for fiction in 2010 and the Encore Award 2011. Her novel Archipelago won the OCM Bocas prize for Caribbean Literature in 2013. The collection contains print and electronic manuscripts, unpublished works, photographs, notebooks, newspaper clippings and correspondence. The collection was handed over to the University/Campus Librarian, Jennifer Joseph at the Diasporic Literary Archives workshop in Port of Spain. The collection will be processed and made available to researchers soon. |
Writer, Monique Roffey has handed over her papers to the Alma Jordan Library at The UWI, making hers the first collection acquired by the library of a female literary author.