Alex Miller

Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelists eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight. Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writers prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 which won the Victorian Premiers Fiction Award in 2014 Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title Horizons.