Facts: - period: 1975 -- present - caption: alex 2013 miller at vassar college , new york , - birth name: alexander mcphee miller - notableworks: '' the stone country '' the ancestor game '' , '' journey to - genre: literary fiction - awards: the miles franklin award 1993 , 2003 - birth date: 27 december 1936 - name: alex miller - nationality: australian - image: alex_miller_at_vassar_college_2013 . jpg - birth place: london , england - occupation: novelist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alex miller -lrb- writer -rrb- .
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alexander mcphee '' alex '' miller -lrb- born 27 december 1936 -rrb- is an australian novelist .miller is twice winner of the miles franklin award , in 1993 for '' the ancestor game '' and in 2003 for '' journey to the stone country '' .he won the overall award for the commonwealth writer 's prize for '' the ancestor game '' in 1993 .he is twice winner of the new south wales premier 's literary awards christina stead prize for '' conditions of faith '' in 2001 and for '' lovesong '' in 2011 .in recognition of his impressive body of work and in particular for his novel '' autumn laing '' he was awarded the melbourne prize for literature in 2012 .