Biography Alex Miller
ALEX MILLER is one of Australia's best loved writers. He is the author of nine novels, including Lovesong, to be published in November 09. Alex is a recipient of the Federation Medal, "For Services to the Australian Cultural Community", and the Manning Clark Medal, for "An outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life." Alex is twice winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. His fifth novel, Conditions of Faith, was published in 2000 and won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in 2001 in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. It was also nominated for the Dublin IMPAC International Literature Award, shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award. Alex is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. In 2008 in Beijing Alex became the first Australian to receive thePeople's Republic of China award for Best Foreign Novel for Landscape of Farewell. He is currently working on a novel based on the life of the Australian artist, Sidney Nolan. Alex lives in Castlemaine with his wife Stephanie.
Bibliography
NOVELS:
LOVESONG, Allen & Unwin, ANZ released November 2009.
LANDSCAPE OF FAREWELL, Allen & Unwin 2007
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Short listed Miles Franklin and numerous other awards.
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Winner Manning Clark Award 2009 for "An outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life."
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Winner Peoples Republic of China, Weishanhu Award for Best Foreign Novel 2009.
PROCHOWNIK'S DREAM, Allen & Unwin, November, 2005
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Long listed Miles Franklin Award.
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Film rights purchased by the Paris based director Elise McCleod.
JOURNEY TO THE STONE COUNTRY, Allen & Unwin, October 2002, Sceptre (UK), September 2002
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Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 2003
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Film rights purchased by the Australian company Resonance Productions.
CONDITIONS OF FAITH, Allen & Unwin, June 2000; Sceptre (UK), May 2000; Scribner (USA), July 2000, Ballantine Books (USA) pb 2001
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Winner Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2001
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Short listed Miles Franklin Award.
THE SITTERS, Viking, May 1995. Reprinted Allen & Unwin 2003
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Short listed Miles Franklin and many other awards.
THE ANCESTOR GAME, Penguin, August 1992; Graywolf (USA), July 1994. Rye Field (Taiwan), July 1996; Chongqing (China), August 1996. Reprinted Allen & Unwin 2003
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Winner, The Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1993; The Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1993; and the Barbara Ramsden Award for Best Published Book, 1993. Michael Ondaatje said of this book, "A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty."
THE TIVINGTON NOTT, Robert Hale (UK), 1989. Reprinted Penguin 1993, Allen & Unwin 2005
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Winner The Braille Book of the Year, 1990
