Jan Carson

Genres: Fiction | Irish Writing | Short Stories
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Jan Carson is a writer from Northern Ireland. Her books include Malcolm Orange Disappears (2014), Children’s Children (2016), Postcard Stories (2017) and The Fire Starters, which won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019. Born in Ballymena, Jan lives in Belfast, where she runs arts events for the elderly. Jan’s new collection of short stories The Last Resort is a series of 10 interlinked stories commissioned by Radio 4 and is published by Doubleday Ireland on 1 April 2021.

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