Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He attended Middlesex Polytechnic, then did an MA at UEA with Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain as his tutors. Later he did a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has worked in the health service and in social services and has lived in Spain, France, Ireland and Japan. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997. It won the James Tait Black, the Dublin International IMPAC prize and the Grinzane Cavour in Italy. He is the author of ten novels to date, and has won the Costa Book of the Year and most recently the Walter Scott Prize, awarded June 2025 for his latest novel The Land in Winter. He lives in a small village in South Somerset and is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature