Author Alex Miller to visit Townsville on book tour
Date published: 11 April 2016
Australian novelist Alex Miller will visit CityLibraries Thuringowa Central this month as part of Townsville City Council’s One Title One Townsville book club.
The award-winning author will host a Q&A session on Thursday, April 28 at 6.30pm, offering residents the opportunity to share their thoughts on his new novel Coal Creek and get autographs.
As part of the visit, Mr Miller will join fellow authors Colin Hooper and Janeen Brian at a Literary Dinner at Rydges Southbank on Friday, April 29 and host a Writer’s Class at the library on Saturday, April 30.
Community and Environment acting director Susan Coker said council was thrilled to be able to host such an accomplished Australian author.
“I encourage avid readers, or those interested in pursuing writing, to attend one of the sessions as I’m certain they would be immensely rewarding,” Ms Coker said.
“Alex Miller is a very accomplished novelist and we look forward to hearing about his career, his new novel and to learn about the writing process from him.”
* To book a spot in the free Q&A session visit council’s website http://bit.ly/alexmillerQA
* Tickets for the literary dinner are $77. Bookings close April 21. Book and pay online at townsvilletickets.com.au
* The writer’s class is free.
* Or simply go to http://bit.ly/onetitleonetownsville and follow the instructions
Notes to editor
Alex Miller’s 11th novel, Coal Creek, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2013. Alex is twice winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor’s Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1993 for The Ancestor’s Game.
His fifth novel Conditions of Faith won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2001 NSW Premier’s Awards. In 2011 he won this award for the second time with his novel Lovesong.
In 2007 Landscape of Farewell was published to wide critical acclaim and in 2008 won the Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award for Best Novel and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life.
Following the publication of Autumn Laing, he was awarded the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012.
