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.