ロージー・ケリー（Rozie Kelly）は、イギリスの小説家。ウォーリック大学とマンチェスター大学で英文学と創作を学び、ウェスト・ヨークシャーのヘブデン・ブリッジへ移った。創作教育を行うArvon Foundationで執筆講座の運営に携わりながら、小説を執筆。2023年のPFD Queer Fiction Prizeで最終候補となり、2024年には新進の作家・アーティストを支援するPrototype Development Programmeの初回参加者8人に選ばれた。同年、長編原稿『Kingfisher』（未邦訳）がNorthBound Book Awardを受賞し、同賞による出版支援を通じて2025年4月にSarabandから刊行された。作品は、創作を教える若い男性が、年上で成功した女性詩人に心を奪われ、男性のパートナーとの関係を揺るがしていく過程を描く。相手の才能や暮らしへの憧れが欲望や執着と重なり、やがて病と介護が二人の関係を変えていく。男性の一人称を用いて、年齢、性別、経済力、創作上の成功によって親密な関係の力関係が動くさまを描いた。ケリーは女性小説賞のインタビューで、若い男性と年上の女性の組み合わせを通じて支配と力を問い直し、異性愛だけでは捉えられない欲望を描こうとしたと説明した。看病する相手の人生を自分の文章にするという行為も物語に織り込み、愛情や献身と、他者の経験を自分のものにする欲求の境界を扱った。同作は2026年のWomen’s Prize for Fictionの最終候補に選ばれた。
Rozie Kelly is a British novelist based in West Yorkshire. She studied English literature and creative writing at Warwick and Manchester before moving to Hebden Bridge, where she works for the Arvon Foundation hosting creative writing courses. She was shortlisted for the 2023 PFD Queer Fiction Prize and selected as one of eight participants in the inaugural Prototype Development Programme in 2024. That year, her manuscript Kingfisher won the NorthBound Book Award, whose support included publication with Saraband. Her debut novel appeared in April 2025. It follows a young male creative writing academic who becomes infatuated with an older, successful woman poet, destabilising his relationship with his male partner. His desire for her is bound up with his longing for her artistic success and way of life; illness and caregiving subsequently reshape their relationship. Told in the man’s first person, the novel explores how age, gender, money, and literary standing complicate the balance of power between people. In an interview with the Women’s Prize, Kelly explained that she wanted to examine power and control through a younger man’s objectification of an older woman, while giving his attraction dimensions beyond heterosexual desire or sexual appetite. As he cares for the poet, he also writes her story, bringing his attempts at selflessness into tension with the appropriation of another person’s experience. Kingfisher was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
