We bring Monique Roffey (UK) and C Pam Zhang (USA) together across two continents to discuss the common themes of myth, discovery and the lure and lore of the frontier.
This event is available to view as a recording until 13 June. Tickets can be purchased below.
Monique Roffey’s Costa Book of the Year-winning The Mermaid of Black Conch and C Pam Zhang’s Booker-longlisted How Much of These Hills is Gold are two of the boldest and most beautifully written novels of the last year. Lyrical, fierce and subversive, they weave mythology, landscape and feminism into vividly imagined storytelling, challenging and revisioning colonial history.
In partnership with Brighton Festival, as part of their Global Conversations series, we bring both writers together across two continents to discuss the common themes of myth, discovery and the lure and lore of the frontier. Chaired by Lucy Scholes.
In partnership with Brighton Festival
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Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and mostly educated in the UK. She is the author six novels and a memoir including The Mermaid of Black Conch, which won the Costa Book of the Year 2020 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Rathbones/Folio Award. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2010 and Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature in 2013.
C Pam Zhang was born in Beijing but is mostly an artifact of the United States, has lived in thirteen cities and is still looking for home. Her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 and the Rathbones/Folio Prize 2021 and was one of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2020. Her work appears in Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Tin House and elsewhere. She currently lives in San Francisco.
Lucy Scholes writes about books, film and art for a variety of publications including The Financial Times, The Telegraph, NYR Daily and Granta. She hosts OurShelves, a podcast from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago, and writes "Re-Covered", a monthly column for the Paris Review about out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn't be.
Brighton Festival is the largest curated cross-arts festival in England, which runs this year from 1 May 2021 with guest director, the poet, author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE.
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