Alex Miller is the award-winning author of fourteen novels, a biography and two collections. He is published internationally and widely in translation. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country, overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, twice winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards, winner of the Chinese 21st Century Weishanhi Best Foreign Novel of the Year and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life, and winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Miller's work of non-fiction,?Max, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2021. Alex's collection of stories and memoir, The Simplest Words, published in 2015 was followed in 2023 with his collection of letters and notebooks, A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2024