Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison has been described as the “most fluent and intelligent Scottish writer of his generation” by Booker Prize judge Stuart Kelly. Morrison is an award winning novelist and screenwriter and an essayist. His writing has been praised by renowned authors Lionel Shriver, Ian Rankin, Fay Weldon, Douglas Coupland, James Frey, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Luke Rhinehart, and Hanif Kureishi among others. Ewan's eighth book, the 'darkly comic thriller, How to Survive Everything was published by Contraband in the UK in 2021, and in the US with Harper Perennial in 2022. Ewan’s novel, NINA X, published by Fleet an imprint of Little Brown, won Scotland's most prestigious literary prize—the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year—in 2019, and his novel, Close Your Eyes was the winner of the Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize in 2013.  He is also the winner of the Not the Booker Prize in 2012 for Tales from the Mall (2012) which has been named one of the top 50 Scottish Books of the last 50 years (Scottish Book Trust). Morrison blogs regularly for Psychology Today as "WORD-LESS: A novelist ponders emotional health," and writes regular articles and essays for AREO Magazine on Utopianism, Technology, and Free Speech. Between 2011 & 2013 Morrison was a regular contributor to The Guardian, and he has contributed articles to The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Mail, L’Express, La Republicca, Quillette, Areo, Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman, The Erotic Review, GQ, Esquire, Arena, Mute, Frieze, The Psychologist and Psychology Today.