''Prochownik's Dream'' is a 2005 novel by the Australian author

Alex Miller Alex Miller (born 4 July 1949) is a Scottish football manager and former player. As a player, he had a 15-year career with Rangers, winning several trophies. As a manager, he won the 1991–92 Scottish League Cup with Hibernian. He subsequen ...

. In this new novel the double

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

winner dramatises the dichotomy within an artist as he negotiates the creative life.' - Jane Sullivan, 'The Age'

Notes

*Dedication: "For Stephanie. For the memory of Max Blatt. " *Epigraph: "'We cannot arbitrarily invent projects for ourselves: they have to be written in our past as requirements" (Simone de Beauvoir)

Awards

* 2006 Longlisted,

Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

* 2005, FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award, highly commended

Interviews

* Jane Sullivan, 'The Miller's Tale, "The Age", 5 November 200

*"Books and Writing

Reviews

*"The Age

*"AussieReviews

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