The Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp is pleased to invite you to an evening with Northern Irish writer Jan Carson, following her latest book The Raptures.
Her debut novel Malcolm Orange Disappears and short story collection Children's Children were published by Liberties Press in Dublin. A collection of micro-fiction, Postcard Stories, was published by Emma Press in 2017. Jan's novel The Fire Starters was published by Doubleday in April 2019 and subsequently won the EU Prize for Literature 2019. Since then, the book, along with The Last Resortand The Raptures, has also been distributed by Penguin.
She has previously been shortlisted for the Sean O'Faolain Short Story Prize, the BBC National Short Story Prize, the Eason Novel of the Year Award and An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award, and won the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize in 2016. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Banshee, The Tangerine, Winter Papers and Harper's Bazaar and on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Apart from literature, Jan also has a strong connection with art. She has already curated the CS Lewis Festival, the Hillsborough Festival of Literature and Ideas and the inaugural Belfast Lit Crawl. She specialises in arts engagement with the elderly and people living with Dementia and she was part of an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the representation of Dementia in literature.
Practical
Wednesday 22 March 2023
19:30 - 20:30: Jan Carson reads from her own work, followed by an interview
20:30 - 21:30: reception and book signing
Room S.C.002
Language: English
Participation is free, register HERE