Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey | |
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Born |
Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey 13 April 1947 Hobart, Tasmania |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Notable works | Reading Madame Bovary |
Notable awards | Patrick White Award |
Years active | 1977- |
Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian writer, and novelist. She 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. Since 2002 she has held the position of lecturer in School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
Awards and nominations
- 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
- 1998 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction The Reading Group
- 2005 longlisted Miles Franklin Award The Philosopher's Doll
- 2006 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Philosopher's Doll[1]
- 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award Reading Madame Bovary
- 2012 Patrick White Award
Bibliography
Novels
Library resources about Amanda Lohrey |
By Amanda Lohrey |
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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)
Essays
- An essay in Secrets by Drusilla Modjeska, Amanda Lohrey, Robert Dessaix. Pan MacMillan, 1997
- 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
External links
- Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, the Book Show, ABC Radio National, on her novel Vertigo, 10 November 2008.
References
- ↑ "The 2006 longlist". IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
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