Alex Miller

Alex Miller photographed by John Tsiavi Alex Miller is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and a collection of essays and stories. He is published internationally and widely in translation. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game and for Journey to the Stone Country. He is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1993 for The Ancestor Game. Conditions of Faith and Lovesong are both winners of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards. Landscape of Farewell was awarded the Chinese 21st Century Weishanhi Best Foreign Novel of the Year and the Manning Clark Medal for Miller’s outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life. Autumn Laing received the Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Coal Creek, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. The Simplest Words, a collection of short pieces of fiction and non-fiction, was published in 2015. Miller’s only full-length work of non-fiction, Max, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2021. Alex's twelfth novel, The Passage of Love, published in 2017, is his most autobiographical work, described by the noted American scholar Nicholas Birns as 'a masterpiece in every way'. In A Brief Affair, Alex Miller’s most recent novel, ‘The Miles Franklin-winning author returns to fiction with a deftly woven domestic drama that explores one woman’s state of mind in midlife.’ – Joseph Cummins, The Guardian. A Kind of Confession, a selection from Alex Miller’s notebooks and letters, makes it exhilaratingly evident that Miller has been devoted to finding and telling stories that are profound, substantial and entertaining, stories that capture both intellect and emotion.

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