The Fire Starters

Informationen zum Autor Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. Jan’s latest novel, The Raptures was published by Doubleday in early 2022 and was subsequently shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses was published by Doubleday (UK) in April 2024 and Scribner (US) in July 2024. Her writing has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She is the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast 2025 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first stage play, an adaptation of the children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit will be produced by Replay Theatre Company at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in March 2025. Her next novel, Few and Far Between is forthcoming in early 2026. Klappentext **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising. Zusammenfassung **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Carson, Carson Jan
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2020
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781784163846
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-384-6
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions (packing): 12.7 x 19.8 x 1.8 cm
• Subjects: Horror, Mystery, Magic, Booker Prize, FICTION / Magical Realism, dark, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Wit, Rachel Kushner, Narrative theme: Sense of place, When All is Said, Magical Realism, Social Stories, Wonder, Sacrifice, Literary fiction, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Max Porter, Emilie Pine, The Troubles, Romantic Fiction, Fatherhood, Family life fiction / Stories about family, contemporary fiction, Relating to parents, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Literature of Northern Ireland, aga, Travel Fiction, eimear mcbride, the writers tale, city of stories, milkman anna burns, donal ryan, Anne Griffin, louise o'neill, night boat to tangier, lisa mcinerney, cloud atlas david mitchell, the hunting party lucy foley, milkman burns, little fires everywhere by celeste ng, sally rooney conversations with friends, kevin barry tangier