Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison is an award-winning novelist, scriptwriter and essayist. His fiction tends to focus on the subject of the modern family, cults, idealism and extremism.

As a novelist he has won the following prizes:

The Saltire Society Literary Prize – Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, for his novel Nina X, (2019)

The Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize for his novel Close Your Eyes (2013)

Writer of the Year Award, in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, for Tales from the Mall (2012)

Before turning to fiction Morrison was an award winning television writer and director, and was a resident scriptwriter at Madstone Films in New York from 2003-2005. His work explores relationships in the modern world. The film American Blackout (2014), co-written by Morrison and partner Emily Ballou, reached an audience of 45 million and was debated in the U.S Senate. It has a cult following among ‘Preppers’ and ‘Survivalists’ Morrison’s feature film, Swung (2016), an adaptation of his first novel, was nominated for two BAFTAs and one international award. The novel was also short-listed for the Le Prince Maurice Award (Mauritius) and led to Morrison being a finalist in the Arena Magazine Man of the Year Award (literature) 2006.

Morrison’s novel Nina X (2019) is being adapted as a feature film with the director of an Academy Award nominated film, with Morrison as scriptwriter. The television rights for the adaptation of Morrison’s book How to Survive Everything (2021) have been acquired by Made Up Stories and Endeavor and development has recently commenced. How to Survive Everything will be published by Harper Perennial in North America in the fall of 2022. Morrison is the winner of a Royal Television Society Award for best drama (2001) and has been nominated for four BAFTAs.