About Jan Carson
Born 1980. Jan Carson is a British writer.
Jan Carson FRSL is a writer from Northern Ireland. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears, 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.
Born in Ballymena in 1980, Carson lives in Belfast, where she runs arts events for the elderly.
Short stories A Little Unsteadily Into Light (2022, New Island Books)
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writer from Northern Ieland
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Jan Carson was born in 1980 in Ballymena.
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Jan Carson is a writer.
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