Alex Miller

Alex Miller was born in South London. As a boy he worked in the west country of England before travelling alone to Australia at age 16. He studied history and literature at Melbourne University. A Brief Affair is his fifteenth book.

He is the award-winning author of thirteen novels, one biography and one collection of essays and stories and has been published internationally and widely in translation. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1992 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993 for <i>The Ancestor Game</i>.

Conditions of Faith and Lovesong are both winners of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards. Autumn Laing received the coveted Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Coal Creek, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for 2014. His twelfth novel, the autobiographical The Passage of Love, was described by the noted American scholar Nicholas Birns as 'a masterpiece in every way'.