Andrew Miller (novelist)

British novelist

For the author of the Man-Booker nominated 2011 novel Snowdrops, see Andrew Miller (writer).

Andrew Miller

Miller at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019

Born|  (1960-04-29) 29 April 1960 (age 63)
Bristol, England, UK
Occupation| Author
Language| English
Nationality| British
Education| Critical and Creative Writing
Alma mater| Middlesex University
University of East Anglia
Lancaster University
Genre| Fictional prose
Notable awards| IMPAC (1999)
Costa Book Award (2011)

Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist.

## Life and career[edit]

Miller was born in Bristol. He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France.[1] He was educated at Dauntsey's School, and after gaining a first-class degree in English at Middlesex Polytechnic,[2] completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1991. In 1995 he wrote a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. For his first book Ingenious Pain he received three awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Award for Fiction,[3] the International Dublin Literary Award;[4] and the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy.[5] The book has been translated into 36 languages. Miller currently lives in Witham Friary in Somerset with his daughter Frieda.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Ingenious Pain (1997, Sceptre)
* Casanova (1998, Sceptre)
* Oxygen (2001, Sceptre)
* The Optimists (2005, Sceptre)
* One Morning Like a Bird (2008, Sceptre)
* Pure (2011, Sceptre)
* The Crossing (2015, Sceptre)[6]
* Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018, Sceptre)
* The Slowworm's Song (2022, Sceptre)

## Awards[edit]

* 1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction Award, Ingenious Pain
* 1997 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), Best Foreign Fiction, Ingenious Pain
* 1999 International Dublin Literary Award, Winner, Ingenious Pain
* 2001 Booker Prize, Shortlist, Oxygen
* 2001 Whitbread Novel Award, Shortlist, Oxygen
* 2011 Costa Book Awards, Best Novel, Pure[7][1]
* 2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure[7]
* 2019 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free[8]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Eltringham, Dan (18 June 2011). "Small talk: Andrew Miller". FT.com. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
2. ^ Cochrane, Kira (25 January 2012). "Andrew Miller: my morbid obsession". Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
3. ^ "Previous winners - fiction | James Tait Black Prize winners | People". Ed.ac.uk. 11 November 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
4. ^ "International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award". Impacdublinaward.ie. 2000. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
5. ^ "Andrew Miller | British Council Literature". Literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
6. ^ Miller, Andrew (28 June 2016). "Andrew Miller: 'I was trying to leap out of my habitual mind'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
7. ^ a b "2011 Costa Book Awards Winners Announced". Huffingtonpost.co.uk. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
8. ^ "Carey shortlisted for 2019 Walter Scott Prize". Books+Publishing. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* Andrew Miller at British Council: Literature
* Media related to Andrew Miller at Wikimedia Commons

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Works by Andrew Miller

* Ingenious Pain (1997)
* Casanova (1998)
* Oxygen (2001)
* The Optimists (2005)
* One Morning Like a Bird (2008)
* Pure (2011)
* The Crossing (2015)
* Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018)

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* David Malouf (1996)
* Javier Marías / Margaret Jull Costa (1997)
* Herta Müller / Michael Hofmann (1998)
* Andrew Miller (1999)
* Nicola Barker (2000)
* Alistair MacLeod (2001)
* Michel Houellebecq / Frank Wynne (2002)
* Orhan Pamuk / Erdağ Göknar (2003)
* Tahar Ben Jelloun / Linda Coverdale (2004)
* Edward P. Jones (2005)
* Colm Tóibín (2006)
* Per Petterson / Anne Born (2007)
* Rawi Hage (2008)
* Michael Thomas (2009)
* Gerbrand Bakker / David Colmer (2010)
* Colum McCann (2011)
* Jon McGregor (2012)
* Kevin Barry (2013)
* Juan Gabriel Vásquez / Anne McLean (2014)
* Jim Crace (2015)
* Akhil Sharma (2016)
* José Eduardo Agualusa / Daniel Hahn (2017)
* Mike McCormack (2018)
* Emily Ruskovich (2019)
* Anna Burns (2020)
* Valeria Luiselli (2021)
* Alice Zeniter / Frank Wynne (2022)

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