Of Intimacies and Raptures | Lucy Caldwell and Jan Carson in conversation with Claire Armitstead

Описание: Celebrated Irish writer Lucy Caldwell’s award-winning short story collection Intimacies brings us a cast of young women navigating their place in the world. Her recent novel These Days explores the lives of two sisters during the Belfast Blitz. Author Jan Carson’s The Raptures portrays life in a quiet village in Northern Ireland disrupted by uncanny happenings and hauntings. In conversation with Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead , Caldwell and Carson discuss the complexities of their writing and their relationship with the setting of their novels.

Lucy Caldwell, born in Belfast, is the author of four novels, two collections of stories, several stage and radio dramas, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. In 2022, she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters for her body of work.

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator from Belfast. She’s published three novels, two short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2022.

Claire Armitstead is Associate Editor (Culture) for the Guardian. Her previous roles include Arts Editor, Literary Editor and Head of Books. She writes across the Guardian and its sister paper, The Observer, and is a member of the leader team, with responsibility for culture.