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. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, and after gaining a first-class degree in English at Middlesex Polytechnic, 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, the International Dublin Literary Award; and the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. The book has been translated into 36 languages. Miller currently lives in Witham Friary in Somerset with his daughter Frieda.

Andrew Miller (novelist)

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) Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018, Sceptre) The Slowworm's Song (2022, Sceptre)

Andrew Miller (novelist)

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, Pure

2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure

2019 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

References

External links

1960 births

Living people

People educated at Dauntsey's School

Alumni of Middlesex University

Alumni of the University of East Anglia

Alumni of Lancaster University

20th-century British novelists

21st-century British novelists

Costa Book Award winners

James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients

Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature

British male novelists

20th-century British male writers

21st-century British male writers

People from Mendip District

Andrew Miller (novelist)