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 .