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 and 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.

Related episodes:

Alex was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice, in 1993 and 2003. If you are interested in literary fiction, listen to our interviews with Sofie Laguna (awarded the prize in 2015) and Alec Patric (award the prize in 2016), as well as with the 2017 Miles Franklin Shortlist.

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