Andrew Miller (novelist)

British novelist

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

Andrew Miller

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Miller at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019

Born|  (1960-04-29) 29 April 1960 (age 65)
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 (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist. He has published ten novels and has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.

## Life and career

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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

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* 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)
* The Land in Winter (2024, Sceptre)

## Awards

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* 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]
* 2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure[7]
* 2012 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Pure
* 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[8]
* 2013 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist, Pure
* 2018 Highland Book Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free[9]
* 2019 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free[10]
* 2025 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, The Land in Winter[11]

## References

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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. ^ "Miller, Andrew". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
9. ^ "2018 Shortlist". The Highland Book Prize. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
10. ^ "Carey shortlisted for 2019 Walter Scott Prize". Books+Publishing. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
11. ^ "2025 Shortlist announced from Abbotsford". Walter Scott Prize. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.

## External links

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* 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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Recipients of the International Dublin Literary Award

* 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)
* Katja Oskamp / Jo Heinrich (2023)
* Mircea Cărtărescu / Sean Cotter (2024)

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