Andrew Miller | |
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![]() Miller at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
Born | Bristol, England, UK | 29 April 1960
Occupation | Author |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Education | Critical and Creative Writing |
Alma mater | Middlesex University University of East Anglia Lancaster University |
Genre | Fictional prose |
Notable awards | 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, and the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.
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.