Andrew Miller (writer)
Andrew D. Miller ( * 1974 in London) is an English journalist and writer.
Life
Miller studied English literature at Cambridge and Princeton. Emerged first journalistic work in the form of travelogues in the United States. On his return to London, he worked as a producer of television programs.
In 2000 he became editor of the London weekly The Economist, where he wrote about British politics and culture. From 2004 to 2007 he was the Moscow correspondent for the magazine. He reported, among other things, the "Orange Revolution " in Ukraine, the Yukos affair and the rise of Gazprom. After his return, he took over the editorship of British politics and wrote the weekly " Bagehot " column. In 2010 he was the editor for the UK.
2006 saw Miller's first book, The Earl of Petticoat Lane, a family story about "love, friendship, memory, immigration, class, the Blitz and the underwear industry" ( " Love, Friendship, Memories, immigration, social classes, The Lightning and the underwear industry "). Miller lives with his wife and two children in London.
The ice-cold season of love
In 2011, Miller's debut novel Snowdrops appeared ( German: The ice-cold season of love ) about an English lawyer who comes in the wake of Russia's oil boom to Moscow to accompany financial transactions between domestic companies and European donors. In the Russian capital, he gets a cold Moscow winter away in the wake of a young Russian woman named Masha and is involved in criminal activity.
The title Snowdrops ( Snowdrops ) is a Russian slang for dead that remain hidden under the winter snow layer, until they come to the fore in the snowmelt of spring. For Miller, the expression was indicative of the hard life in Russia and the handling of Moscow with the cold winter, but he saw it as a metaphor for repressed truths that obtain one at the end. The novel he described as "moral thriller" ( " moral thriller" ), the story of a moral decay. The central themes are, according to Hans von Trotha, the identity crisis of the protagonist and " the need to explore a large, deep love ," which does not apply to the young Russian woman, but the city of Moscow as such.
The novel came in 2011 on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, the Gold Dagger Award and the Galaxy National Book Award, and the following year was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Snowdrops has been published in over twenty languages . The German translation is by Bernhard Robben and appeared in 2012 at S. Fischer Verlag. Philipp Moog read an audio book.
Works
- 2006: The Earl of Petticoat Lane. Heinemann.
- 2011: Snowdrops. Atlantic Books. German: The ice-cold season of love. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-049019-3.