Jan Carson

As part of the Irish Itinerary 2025, Norther Irish writer Jan Carson will visit Wuppertal and read from her work at the SWANE Café. Since her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature, Jan Carson has established herself as one of Northern Ireland’s most remarkable and influential writers. Her work comprises two more novels (Malcolm Orange Disappears, 2014, and The Raptures, 2022), two short story collections (Children’s Children, 2016, and Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, 2024), and two flash fiction anthologies (Postcard Stories 1 & 2, 2017 and 2020). Carson’s fiction blends the magical and the mundane to explore themes of community, identity, and resilience.