Andrew Miller (novelist)

For the author of the Man-Booker nominated 2011 novel Snowdrops, see Andrew Miller (writer).

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.

Andrew Miller FRSL
Miller at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019
Born	(1960-04-29) 29 April 1960 (age 65) Bristol, England, UK
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)

Life and career

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.

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)^[6]
• Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018, Sceptre)
• The Slowworm's Song (2022, Sceptre)
• The Land in Winter (2024, Sceptre)

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^[7]
• 2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure^[7]
• 2012 Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, Pure
• 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature^[8]
• 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, shortlist, Pure
• 2018 Highland Book Prize, winner, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free^[9]
• 2019 Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free^[10]
• 2025 Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, The Land in Winter^[11]
• 2025 Booker Prize, longlist, The Land in Winter^[12]