16.12.2024

Public Reading: Jan Carson

On Thursday, 9 January, 2025 the Northern Irish writer Jan Carson will visit Tübingen.

In recent years, Jan Carson has made her name as one of the most powerful and impressive literary voices emerging from Northern Ireland. She became internationally known when her second novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019. While The Fire Starters takes stock of the situation in Belfast after the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, her most recent novel The Raptures (2022) paints an intense picture of a protestant village coping with the mysterious death of 10 school children in 1992. Besides novels, Jan Carson has written numerous short stories – Children’s Children (2016), Postcard Stories 1 & 2 (2017 & 2018) and most recently Quickly, While They Still Have Horses (2024). During the pandemic she wrote a short story cycle for BBC Radio 4 which was also published in book form: The Last Resort (2020). In Tübingen you are cordially invited to attend the following events:

Thursday, 9 January, 2025,10:15 - 11:45, room 037, Brechtbau (Wilhelmstr. 50)
Jan Carson reading from her works and discussing Functions of Fiction with Christoph Reinfandt (English Department)

Thursday, 9 January, 2025, 19:00 (s.t.!) - 20:30, Alte Aula (Münzgasse 30)
Jan Carson reading from her works

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt, Englisches Seminar
christoph.reinfandtspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de