Andrew Miller (novelist) explained

Andrew Miller
Birth Date:	29 April 1960
Birth Place:	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
Awards:	IMPAC (1999) Costa Book Award (2011)

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

Life and career

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

• 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

• 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, Purehttp://www.andrewmillerwriter.com/
• 2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure^[7]
• 2019 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dan . Eltringham . Small talk: Andrew Miller . FT.com . 18 June 2011 . 4 January 2012.
2. News: Kira . Cochrane . Andrew Miller: my morbid obsession . Guardian . 25 January 2012 . 26 January 2012.
3. Web site: Previous winners - fiction | James Tait Black Prize winners | People . Ed.ac.uk . 11 November 2011 . 1 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927024752/http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/people/tait-black/fiction . 27 September 2011 .
4. Web site: International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award . Impacdublinaward.ie . 2000 . 1 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111011031642/http://impacdublinaward.ie/win99.htm . 11 October 2011 .
5. Web site: Andrew Miller | British Council Literature . Literature.britishcouncil.org . 13 January 2016.
6. Web site: Andrew Miller: 'I was trying to leap out of my habitual mind'. Andrew. Miller. 28 June 2016. 5 January 2019. The Guardian.
7. Web site: 2011 Costa Book Awards Winners Announced . Huffingtonpost.co.uk . 30 December 2011 . 4 January 2012.
8. Web site: Carey shortlisted for 2019 Walter Scott Prize. 2019-04-03. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-04-03.