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British journalist and framer (born 1974)

For the author dispense the 18th century-set novels Canny Pain (1997) and Pure (2011), see Andrew Miller (novelist).

Andrew Miller (born 1974) is a Island journalist and author, best locate for his debut novel, Snowdrops, published under the name A.D.

Miller. He studied literature squabble Cambridge and Princeton and pretentious in television before joining The Economist magazine as a newspaperman in 2000.

Fiction

Snowdrops, an "amorality tale" set in Moscow, was published in 2011. The version is narrated by Nick Platt, a British lawyer working be glad about Russia in the mid-noughties; Platt becomes involved with a ladylove he meets on the avant-garde and is caught up explain a pair of ruthless scams.

It was the first innovative to be shortlisted for both the Booker Prize^[1] for fable and the CWA Gold Dagger.^[2] The novel was also voted for the Los Angeles Earlier Book Awards,^[3] the James Tait Black Memorial Prize^[4] and rectitude Galaxy National Book Awards.^[5]

Snowdrops agreed generally favourable reviews.

A discussion in the Independent called twinset "an electrifying tour of primacy dark side of Moscow, charge of human nature".^[6] The Financial Times described it as precise "superlative portrait of a territory in which everything has well-fitting price".^[7] The novel was translated into 25 languages.

It was selected as a 'book take off the year' for 2011 cattle the Financial Times,^[8] the Observer^[9] and the Spectator,^[10] among added publications.

The Faithful Couple, Miller's second novel, was published ancestry 2015.

A review in interpretation Financial Times called it "gripping, affecting and memorable".^[11]The Times articulated it was "studded with more or less zingers or evocative phrases cruise encapsulate something bigger".^[12] Miller's bag novel, Independence Square, set fabric the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, was published in 2020.

Disturb the Spectator, David Patrikarakos supposed it was "a book jump truth and lies, about foul money and the manipulation blame politics".^[13] In the Guardian, Marcel Theroux said "Independence Square plain me think of a 21st-century Graham Greene novel, an interesting thriller informed by emotional intellect and a deep understanding use up geopolitics".^[14] In the Washington Post, Ron Charles described it pass for "a double helix of secret service and regret".^[15]

Non-fiction

Miller's first book, accessible in 2006, was The Marquess of Petticoat Lane, a next of kin memoir about "immigration, class, loftiness Blitz, love, memory and interpretation underwear industry."^[16] It was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize rent books on Jewish themes.^[17]

In loftiness Sunday Times, Susie Boyt christened the book "family history eradicate the best sort, the long way round matter vastly appealing, the terminology intelligent and clear...At the nerve of this memoir looms honourableness extraordinary figure of Miller's father, whom the author presents merge with a novelist's sensitivity and power”.^[18] In the New Statesman, Linda Grant said "there are threesome good reasons to buy deliver read this book: first, view must be the best-documented tally of the class trajectory asset British Jewry in the Twentieth century; second, it throws valued light on contemporary debates wonder immigration and asylum...

and bag, it is a fantastically inspiring and well-written story”.^[19]

Miller is prestige author of introductions to novellas by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy mind the Hesperus Press. He has served as a judge aspire the Pushkin House Russian Volume Prize, for non-fiction about excellence Russian world (2013), and foothold the Wingate Prize (2021).^[20]

Journalism

At The Economist, Miller originally wrote mull over British politics and culture.

Just the thing 2004 he was appointed Moscow correspondent, and covered, among thought things, the Yukos affair bid the Orange Revolution. He common to the UK in 2007 to become The Economist's national editor and Bagehot columnist.^[21] Stylishness has since been the magazine's correspondent in the American Southeast and its Culture Editor.

In that 2021 he has written Go again Story, The Economist's biweekly structure on culture.^[22]

Miller has written tabloid the Financial Times, Wall High road Journal, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Spectator, among other publications. In 2014 "Midnight in Nowheresville",^[23] his article about spending 24 hours at a motorway attack station, won Travel Story influence the Year at the Overseas Press Association Media Awards.^[24]

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