Jan Carson

Jan Carson FRSL is a writer from Northern Ireland. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears (2014), Children’s Children (2016), Postcard Stories (2017), The Fire Starters (2019) – which won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019 – and The Raptures (2021). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.¹

Born in Ballymena in 1980,² Carson lives in Belfast, where she runs arts events for the elderly.³

Short stories

A Little Unsteadily Into Light (2022, New Island Books)⁴

References

Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023). "Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows". The Guardian.
Lee Henry, "Author Jan Carson's life has been full of novel twists", Belfast Telegraph, 21 June 2017.
"Jan Carson" at European Union Prize for Literature.
"A Little Unsteadily Into Light". New Island Books. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

[1] Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023). "Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows". The Guardian.

[2] Lee Henry, "Author Jan Carson's life has been full of novel twists", Belfast Telegraph, 21 June 2017.

[3] "Jan Carson" at European Union Prize for Literature.

[4] "A Little Unsteadily Into Light". New Island Books. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

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