Alex Miller

Alex Miller is an Australian novelist. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He won the overall award for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for The Ancestor Game in 1993.

'This is how it’s going to be then' by Alex Miller

December 1990–January 1991, no. 127 • 01 December 1990

Alex Miller was awarded the Braille Book of the Year Award for his novel The Tivington Nott. When he accepted this award, he spoke of the archaeology of writing and how he sees his work as being like a buried city, waiting to be excavated. Writers and readers, it seems to me, are often driven by a need to confess. Everything. Not just sins. But the lot. To confess in the original secular sense ... (read more)

'This is how it's going to be then' | Extract from a speech by Alex Miller

December 1990–January 1991, no. 127 • 01 December 1990

Alex Miller was recently awarded the Braille Book of the Year Award for his novel The Tivington Nott. When he accepted this award, he spoke of the archaeology of writing and how he sees his work as being like a buried city, waiting to be excavated. This is an edited extract from his speech. Writers and readers, it seems to me, are often driven by a need to confess. Everything. Not just sins. But ... (read more)