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.

 

 

 

 

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