Andrew Miller (novelist)

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Occupation Author Name Andrew Miller Language English Role Novelist		Nationality British Nominations Man Booker Prize Genre Fictional prose

Born 29 April 1960 (age 64) Bristol ( 1960-04-29 ) Alma mater Middlesex UniversityEast AngliaLancaster Notable awards IMPAC (1999)Costa Book Award (2011) Education Middlesex University, University of East Anglia, Lancaster University Awards International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Books Ingenious Pain, Pure, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Oxygen

Award winning novelist andrew miller on creative writing at lancaster university

Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist.

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 IMPAC 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.

1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction Award, Ingenious Pain

1997 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), Best Foreign Fiction, Ingenious Pain

1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Winner, Ingenious Pain

2001 Booker Prize for Fiction, 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

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