Publisher's synopsis
Reading Australia presents this Alex Miller podcast, with permission from The Garret Podcast.
Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a recipient of the Centenary Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life.
His books ad awards include:
- The Ancestor Game, awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Prize and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1993
- Conditions of Faith, awarded the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2001 NSW Premier’s Awards
- Journey to the Stone Country, awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Prize in 2003
- Landscape of Farewell, awarded the 2008 Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award for Best Novel and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life
- Lovesong, awarded the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2011 NSW Premier’s Awards
- Autumn Laing, awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012
- Coal Creek, awarded the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.
Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, The Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for The Ancestor Game. His fifth novel, Conditions of Faith, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2001 New South Wales Premier’s Awards. In 2011 he won this award a second time with his most recent novel Lovesong. Lovesong also won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Awards, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Age Fiction Prize for 2011. In 2007 Landscape of Farewell was published to wide critical acclaim and in 2008 won the Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award for Best Novel and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life. It was also short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the ALS Gold Medal and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Alex is published internationally and widely in translation. Autumn Laing is his tenth novel.
