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Biografisk notat
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm's Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.Miller's writing is <b>cinematic </b>. . . at all times the author is in command
Times Literary Supplement
Miller's writing is <b>cinematic </b>. . . at all times the author is in command
Times Literary Supplement
<b>Revelatory</b>
Sunday Times
<b>Revelatory</b>
Sunday Times
A quite beautifully written coming-of-age novel . . . a <b>precisely, lovingly rendered</b> evocation of imperial Japan
Daily Mail
A quite beautifully written coming-of-age novel . . . a <b>precisely, lovingly rendered</b> evocation of imperial Japan
Daily Mail
Miller's trademark is <b>silken prose which gleams</b> with acutely rendered detail
Independent
Miller's trademark is <b>silken prose which gleams</b> with acutely rendered detail
Independent
Miller's writing is a joy . . . a memorable novel, one that stays true to the randomness of life, to unplanned acts and fateful outcomes . . . <b>Deeply moving, written with loving attention to language</b>, it felt like Pasternak back from the dead
Scotsman
Miller's writing is a joy . . . a memorable novel, one that stays true to the randomness of life, to unplanned acts and fateful outcomes . . . <b>Deeply moving, written with loving attention to language</b>, it felt like Pasternak back from the dead
Scotsman
<b>A real achievement</b>
Guardian
<b>A real achievement</b>
Guardian
Not only does he combine delicious literary conceits with <b>thought-provoking</b> explorations into the human condition, <b>he has the rare gift of tossing out perfect sentences that make you stop in your tracks</b>
Metro
Not only does he combine delicious literary conceits with <b>thought-provoking</b> explorations into the human condition, <b>he has the rare gift of tossing out perfect sentences that make you stop in your tracks</b>
Metro
There are moments of beauty, truth and irony
Daily Telegraph
There are moments of beauty, truth and irony
Daily Telegraph
Andrew Miller is <b>one of Britain's most graceful historical prose stylists</b> . . . He deftly captures the nuances of his subject's emotional maturation against the brittle bellicosity of mid-war Tokyo
Independent on Sunday
Andrew Miller is <b>one of Britain's most graceful historical prose stylists</b> . . . He deftly captures the nuances of his subject's emotional maturation against the brittle bellicosity of mid-war Tokyo
Independent on Sunday
Miller's <b>masterful </b>coming-of-age story ranges from a subtle and spare poetry to an almost Proustian evocation of experiential time
The Age
Miller's <b>masterful </b>coming-of-age story ranges from a subtle and spare poetry to an almost Proustian evocation of experiential time
The Age
<b>Miller's writing reaches across historical distance</b> . . . Like one of the silk umbrellas that Miller's characters carry, the novel unfurls slowly to reveal the intricate, hand-painted patterns hidden at its centre
Globe and Mail
<b>Miller's writing reaches across historical distance</b> . . . Like one of the silk umbrellas that Miller's characters carry, the novel unfurls slowly to reveal the intricate, hand-painted patterns hidden at its centre
Globe and Mail
One Morning Like a Bird: set in Japan in the run-up to Pearl Harbour, the mesmerising tale of a young man forced to make life-changing decisions
'Cinematic'
Times Literary Supplement
'A real achievement'
Guardian
'Revelatory'
Sunday Times
Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry.
But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lies.
Praise for Andrew Miller
'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel
'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times
'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph
'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator
'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times