Andrew Miller

He was educated at Middlesex Polytechnic, Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, where his tutors included Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. 

Miller’s novels have been published in translation in over 20 countries. His first, Ingenious Pain, published in 1997, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm’s Song. 

The Land in Winter was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and won the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Miller has worked as a residential social worker and has taught TEFL in Japan and Spain. He is a keen sailor, has a black belt in aikido, and plays the mandolin in a folk band. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

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