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'Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness - substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.

Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writers' prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 - which won the Victorian Premier's Fiction Award in 2014 - Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title 'Horizons'.' (Publication summary)

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A Registering of Transformations : Alex Miller’s The Passage Of Love Nicholas Birns , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'This essay discusses Alex Miller’s most recent novel, The passage of Love, (2017) in the light of the conspectus on Miller’s work offered by Robert Dixon’s 2014 study of Miller, The Ruin of Time. Despite Miller and Dixon having relatively different intellectual stances, Dixon has brought to bear both theoretical platforms and a deep immersion in Australian literary and cultural history to analyze Miller's work. This essay tries to continue in that tradition, analyzing Miller’s practice of the originally French genre of autofiction and the way this practice is tied in with a set of ethical dilemmas related to the registering of post-Holocaust and post-Mabo trauma as well as his own experience and those of his friends and lovers. In discussing how Miller’s surrogate, Robert Crofts, tries as a migrant from Britain to make a life for himself on an Australian continent with its own tragic history, the essay analyzes how Miller's practice of autofiction speaks to the particular circumstances of Australian literature within world literary space. ' (Publication abstract)

Felicity Plunkett, of Robert Dixon, Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Felicity Plunkett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 182-186)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
A Picture Painted in Words Peter Pierce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
[Review] Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Paul Genoni , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 425-426)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
Review : Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time Joe Cummins , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
Review : Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Brenda Walker , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 50)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
A Picture Painted in Words Peter Pierce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
Review : Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time Joe Cummins , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
Felicity Plunkett, of Robert Dixon, Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Felicity Plunkett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 182-186)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
[Review] Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Paul Genoni , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 425-426)

— Review of Alex Miller : The Ruin of Time Robert Dixon , 2014 single work criticism
Undercover: New Books Celebrate Australian Authors Shirley Hazzard and Alex Miller Susan Wyndham , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 November 2014; The Age , 8 November 2014; The Canberra Times , 8 November 2014;
A Registering of Transformations : Alex Miller’s The Passage Of Love Nicholas Birns , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'This essay discusses Alex Miller’s most recent novel, The passage of Love, (2017) in the light of the conspectus on Miller’s work offered by Robert Dixon’s 2014 study of Miller, The Ruin of Time. Despite Miller and Dixon having relatively different intellectual stances, Dixon has brought to bear both theoretical platforms and a deep immersion in Australian literary and cultural history to analyze Miller's work. This essay tries to continue in that tradition, analyzing Miller’s practice of the originally French genre of autofiction and the way this practice is tied in with a set of ethical dilemmas related to the registering of post-Holocaust and post-Mabo trauma as well as his own experience and those of his friends and lovers. In discussing how Miller’s surrogate, Robert Crofts, tries as a migrant from Britain to make a life for himself on an Australian continent with its own tragic history, the essay analyzes how Miller's practice of autofiction speaks to the particular circumstances of Australian literature within world literary space. ' (Publication abstract)

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