Ewan Morrison is a multi-award-winning novelist, scriptwriter and essayist. His fiction has been described as 'metamodernist' and is focused on the modern family, cults, idealism and extremism. He is the winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Prize, 2019; the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award, 2012 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Book of the Year Award (fiction, 2013). He was shortlisted for the Arena Magazine Man of the Year Award in 2006 and named one of the Five Young Writers to Watch by the New Statesman in 2007.