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.
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