Renowned Australian author of literary fiction, Alex Miller, will be speaking at Fullers Bookshop at 6pm on Tuesday, November 17.

Miller’s most recent book, Lovesong has recently been released to critical acclaim.

Lovesong is a novel born out of Miller’s own experiences living as a writer in Paris in the 1970s.

Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s premier literary prize; in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. Conditions of Faith, his fifth novel, won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the 2001 NSW Premiers Literary Awards.

It was also nominated for the Dublin IMPAC International Literature Award, shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award in 2000, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award in 2001.

He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. Miller’s eighth novel, Landscape of Farewell, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2008, as well as the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the WA Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award.

He was awarded the Manning Clark Cultural Award for an outstanding contribution to the quality of Australian cultural life in 2008, and also the prestigious Chinese literary award for ‘Annual Best Foreign Novel’. He lives with his wife in Castlemaine, Vic.

All are welcome to attend this event.