Ewan Morrison is the author of the novels Swung, Menage, and Distance and the collection of short stories, The Last Book You Read.

Personal life

Morrison was born in Caithness

Caithness

Caithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...

 and graduated from Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow.-History:It was founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. In 1853, it changed its name to The Glasgow School of Art. Initially it was located at 12 Ingram...

. He worked as a television and short film director from 1990 to 2004, and was nominated for three Scottish BAFTAs. One of his short films won a Royal Television Society Award in 1999.

Work

His first novel, Swung, published in 2005, was short listed for the Le Prince Maurice Award. The Last Book You Read and other stories led him to be short listed for the ARENA

Arena (magazine)

Arena was a British monthly men's magazine. The magazine was created in 1986 by Nick Logan, who had started The Face in 1980, to focus on trends in fashion and entertainment. British graphic designer Neville Brody, who had designed The Face, designed Arena's launch appearance.The magazine featured...

magazine Man of the Year award in 2006. Morrison was a UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature writer in Residence at Varuna, Australia, in 2006, and received a writer's bursary from the Scottish Arts Council in 2009. His second and third novels, Distance (2008) and Menage (2009) form a trilogy with the first novel, exploring alternatives to monogamy

Monogamy

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. Swung is on the development slate of independent director David Mackenzie

David Mackenzie (director)

David Mackenzie is a Scottish film director. His brother is actor Alastair MacKenzie.-Selected films:*Perfect Sense starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green*You Instead David Mackenzie (born 10 May 1966) is a Scottish film director. His brother is actor Alastair MacKenzie.-Selected films:*Perfect...

and Sigma Films.
Morrison's most recent book is Tales from the Mall, a linked collection of short stories exploring the ways in which individuals struggle to make something of themselves in a consumerist society.

Morrison wrote a weekly column for Scotland on Sunday from 2007 to 2009. He has occasionally written for UK broadsheets such as The Guardian.

Anthologies

• Flash: The International short story magazine Volume 2 number 1 (2009)
• The Book that Changed my Life (2010)
• The Flash (2007)
• 2HB (2009)
• Four Letter Word (under Anonymous) 2007

Short films (as writer)

• The Proposal (1998)
• The Contract (1995)
• I Saw You (2000)
• Short Films (as director)
• The Lovers (2000)
• I Saw You (2000)
• The Proposal (1998)
• The Contract (1995)
• Blue Christmas (1994)

External links

• Gallix, Andrew. More Thanatos that Eros. Interview with 3AM
• Times magazine. Le Prince Maurice
• Archive of ‘weegie bored’ columns at Scotland on Sunday
• Welsh, Irvine. Boys Keep Swinging, Guardian
• Kelly, Stuart. Book review - Menage
• Death of a Nihilist or Obituary for a Nobody. Article 3AM magazine
• Official site
• Author's site at Random House "Authorsplace"