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Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey (née Howard; born 13 April 1947) is an Australian writer and novelist.




Career


Lohrey completed her education at the University of Tasmania before taking up a scholarship at the University of Cambridge. From 1988 to 1994 she lectured in writing and textual studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has held the position of lecturer in School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 2002, and joined the Australian National University School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics as a visiting fellow in 2016 where she continues to write fiction.




Awards and nominations


1988 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction The Reading Group
1996 winner Australian Literature Society Gold Medal Camille's Bread
1996 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction Camille's Bread
1996 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award Camille's Bread
2005 longlisted Miles Franklin Award The Philosopher's Doll
2006 longlisted International Dublin Literary Award The Philosopher's Doll
2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award Reading Madame Bovary
2012 Patrick White Award
2021 winner Miles Franklin Award The Labyrinth
2021 winner Voss Literary Prize, The Labyrinth
2021 winner Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, The Labyrinth




Bibliography






= Novels

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The Morality of Gentlemen (1984)
The Reading Group (1988)
Camille's Bread (1995)
The Philosopher's Doll (2004)
Vertigo (2008)
Reading Madame Bovary (2010)
A Short History of Richard Kline (2015)
The Labyrinth (2020)
The Conversion (2023)




= Essays

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The Clear Voice Suddenly Singing. An essay in Secrets by Drusilla Modjeska, Amanda Lohrey, Robert Dessaix. Pan MacMillan, 1997
The Project of the Self under Late-Capitalism. The Best Australian Essays 2001, pp. 246–65. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd
Reading Madame Bovary. The Best Australian Stories 2002, pp. 14–39. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens Quarterly Essay 8. 2002, pp. 1–86. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd
Writing The Morality of Gentlemen. Hecate, Vol. 30, 2004 pp. 193–200. Hecate Press
Enrolment Daze, The Monthly, No. 7, November 2005
Celebrating the secular. Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 12, 2006, pp. 202–206. John Libbey & Company Pty Ltd
Voting for Jesus, Christianity and Politics in Australia. Quarterly Essay 22. 2006. Black Inc.
Green Christine, The Monthly, No. 31, February 2008
A Welcome Contradiction: Gambler and MONA founder David Walsh has written a book, The Monthly, December 2014 – January 2015




External links


[1] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, the Book Show, ABC Radio National, on her novel Vertigo, 10 November 2008.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mambesak
• Daftar penulis perempuan Australia
• Amanda Lohrey
• The Labyrinth (Lohrey novel)
• Amanda
• Miles Franklin Award
• Axis of Time
• Camille's Bread
• Dog whistle (politics)
• Reading Madame Bovary
• Patrick White Award
• Quarterly Essay