Jan Carson

{{Short description|Writer from Northern Ireland}}

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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.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/12/royal-society-of-literature-aims-to-broaden-representation-as-it-announces-62-new-fellows|title=Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows|first=Ella|last=Creamer|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 July 2023}}

Born in Ballymena in 1980,Lee Henry, [https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/author-jan-carsons-life-has-been-full-of-novel-twists-35849057.html "Author Jan Carson's life has been full of novel twists"], Belfast Telegraph, 21 June 2017. Carson lives in Belfast, where she runs arts events for the elderly.[https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/jan-carson "Jan Carson"] at European Union Prize for Literature.