Andrew Miller (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
Bristol, England, UK
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
EducationCritical and Creative Writing
Alma materMiddlesex University
University of East Anglia
Lancaster University
GenreFictional prose
Notable worksIngenious Pain (1997)
Oxygen (2001)
Pure (2011)
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018)
The Land in Winter (2024)
Notable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize
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, the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year, the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Life and career

Miller was born in Bristol, England. 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 1997 first novel, Ingenious Pain, Miller 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

Awards

References

  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". The 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 Parker, Sam (30 December 2011). "2011 Costa Book Awards Winners Announced". Huffingtonpost.co.uk. 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. ^ "The Land In Winter wins the 2025 Walter Scott Prize". The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  12. ^ "2025 Shortlist announced from Abbotsford". Walter Scott Prize. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  13. ^ Creamer, Ella (29 July 2025). "Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw". The Guardian.
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