Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960 and has lived internationally, including time in Spain, Japan, Ireland, and France, currently residing in Somerset.
His debut novel, Ingenious Pain (1997), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Italy's Grinzane Cavour prize.
His subsequent works include Casanova (1998) and Oxygen (2001), the latter shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel Award and the Booker Prize.
The Optimists followed in 2005.
Miller is regarded as a gifted, underappreciated literary novelist with a talent for historical fiction and sensuous prose.
