Andrew Miller on Literary Prizes and his novel The Optimists #21
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ANDREW MILLER was born in Bristol\\u2026in 1960 (induced, according to the family legend, by his mother eating a large supper of fish and chips). At age eleven, having convincingly failed his Eleven Plus, he went to boarding school in Wiltshire\\u2026Master of Arts in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia in 1991\\u2026PhD from Lancaster University\\u2026In February 1996, after six years of writing, \\u2018Ingenious Pain\\u2019 his first novel, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Grinzane Cavour prize & the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ingenious Pain & his second novel Casanova are being/have been adapted for Film. His novel, Oxygen, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001. His third novel, Oxygen was shortlisted for the Booker. His books have been published in over twenty countries. He now lives in Brighton and believes that on clear days he can see the coast of France.
We talk about his\\xa0novel is THE OPTIMISTS, prizes, Shakespeare, Hardy, Lawrence, stylism, and his looks and wish to be a fat woman. Andrew Miller is as articulate verbally as he is on the page. Listen\\u2026don\\u2019t just take my word for it\\u2026
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