Emily BALLOU

BALLOU Emily

Poems

 

Emily Ballou is a Scotland-based Australian poet, novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of the novels Father Lands and Aphelion (Picador) and the verse-portrait of Charles Darwin The Darwin Poems (UWA Publishing). The Darwin Poems was awarded the 2010 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Mary Gilmore Prize, the ALS Gold Medal and the Western Australia Premier’s Prize. She has recently adapted two episodes of The Slap for ABC-TV, soon to be screened on the BBC. She lives in Glasgow.

 

 

 

 

  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Swedish Institute
  • MuntPunt
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Commission européenne
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • LOFT 58
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Yunus Emre Institute