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Tuesday 25 October
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Alex Miller is the author of ten novels and one of Australia’s most cherished literary greats. Sebastian Barry called him an “Australian master, so admired by other writers” and John Banville complained that “Alex Miller is a wonderful writer, one that Australia has been keeping secret from the rest of us for too long”.
Miller’s fans are legion and each new book from the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin is an event. To mark the publication of the latest such event, Autumn Laing, he talks about his life and work for the Wheeler Centre.
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Alex Miller
Alex Miller is one of Australia’s best loved writers. He is twice winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s premier literary prize, the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country.
Conditions of Faith, his fifth novel, was published in 2000 and won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the 2001 NSW Premiers Literary Awards. It was also nominated for the Dublin IMPAC International Literature Award, shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award in 2000, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award in 2001.
He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993.
Miller’s seventh novel, Prochownik’s Dream, was published in 2005.
In 2009, Alex Miller was named as a finalist for the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Literature and his most recent novel, Lovesong, was published in November 2009 to great critical acclaim.
Geordie Williamson
Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian and winner of the 2011 Pascall Prize for criticism.
His reviews and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and journals both here and in Britain, and he is a regular presence on ABC radio.
Geordie studied law and English literature at the University of Sydney and University College London. He spent half a decade in the UK selling rare books and manuscripts before returning to Australia.
Geordie now lives in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney with his family. His book about neglected Australian authors, The Burning Library, is published by Text in October 2012.