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8-10 April 2022

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JAN CARSON 

Northern Ireland



Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has published several novels and a short story collection, Children’s Children, two micro-fiction collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 and a short story collection, The Last Resort. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019, the Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction 2020 and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Book Prize 2020. Her third novel, The Raptures has just been published to critical acclaim.

 
Installée à Belfast en Irlande du nord, Jan Carson est écrivaine et animatrice d'ateliers d'art communautaire. Elle a publié plusieurs romans et un recueil de nouvelles, Children’s Children, ainsi que de deux recueils de micro-fiction Postcard Stories 1 and 2 ainsi que d'un recueil de nouvelles The Last Resort. Son roman The Fire Starters, a reçu le Prix Européen de Littérature pour l’Irlande en 2019, le Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction 2020 (Prix des littératures de l'imaginaire) et a été nominé pour le Dalkey Book Prize 2020. Son troisième roman, The Raptures, vient d'être publié et a été acclamé par la critique.

WRITERS

We welcome this year 19 writers of French, English and Irish languages


Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser

France 

John Boyne

Ireland

Niamh Campbell

Ireland

Jan Carson

Northen  Ireland

Oein De Bhairduin

Ireland

Fanie Demeule

Québec

Irene Frain

France

Emmanuelle Josse

France

Hervé Le Tellier

France

Eoin McNamee

Ireland

Pap Ndiaye

France

Áine Ní Ghlinn

Ireland

Micheál Ó Conghaile

Ireland

Kevin Power

Ireland

Keith Ridgway

Ireland

Rita Sakr

Lebanon / Italy

Anne Serre

France

Ailbhe Smyth

Ireland

Vanessa Springora

France

PRESENTED BY

Alliance Française Dublin
French Embassy in Ireland
Dublin Unesco

PARTNERS

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