Amanda Lohrey
{{Short description|Australian novelist (born 1947)}}
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| birth_name = Amanda Frances Lillian Howard
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|4|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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| language = English
| nationality = Australian
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| spouse = Andrew Lohrey
| notableworks = Reading Madame Bovary The Labyrinth
| awards = Patrick White Award
Miles Franklin Award
| years_active = 1977–present
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Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey ({{nee|Howard}}; born 13 April 1947){{cite book |title=Who's Who in Australia |date=2021 |publisher=ConnectWeb}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/celebrated-author-amanda-lohrey-to-write-next-novel-at-anu|title=Celebrated author Amanda Lohrey to write next novel at ANU|last=|first=|date=28 July 2016|website=www.anu.edu.au|access-date=18 February 2018}}
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{{Cite web|last=|title=Amanda Lohrey – Awards|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20535|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-18|website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709170821/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20535 |archive-date=9 July 2017 }}
- 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{{cite web |title= The 2006 longlist |publisher= IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |url= http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2006/Titles/Lohrey.htm |accessdate= 2007-07-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928062336/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2006/Titles/Lohrey.htm |archive-date= 28 September 2007 |url-status=dead |df= dmy-all }}
- 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award Reading Madame Bovary
- 2012 Patrick White Award
- 2021 winner Miles Franklin Award The Labyrinth{{Cite web|date=2021-07-15|title=$60,000 Miles Franklin awarded to a novel 'soaked in sadness' that is ultimately about hope|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-15/miles-franklin-literary-award-tasmanina-author-amanda-lohrey/100293360|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-15|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715062116/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-15/miles-franklin-literary-award-tasmanina-author-amanda-lohrey/100293360 |archive-date=15 July 2021 }}''
- 2021 winner Voss Literary Prize, The Labyrinth{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-12-15|title=Lohrey wins 2021 Voss Literary Prize|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/15/207826/lohrey-wins-2021-voss-literary-prize/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-15|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215025443/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/15/207826/lohrey-wins-2021-voss-literary-prize/ |archive-date=15 December 2021 }}
- 2021 winner Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, The Labyrinth{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-12-15|title=PMLA 2021 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/15/207378/pmla-2021-winners-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-15|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214225032/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/15/207378/pmla-2021-winners-announced/ |archive-date=14 December 2021 }}
Bibliography
=Novels=
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- The Morality of Gentlemen (1984){{Citation | author1=Lohrey, Amanda | author2=Australia Council. Literature Board | title=The morality of gentlemen | publication-date=1984 | publisher=Alternative Publishing Cooperative Limited | isbn=978-0-909188-83-2}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136918809 |title=A bold examination of the power game |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=59 |issue=17,898 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=29 September 1984 |accessdate=4 October 2023 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The Reading Group (1988){{Citation | author1=Lohrey, Amanda | author2=New South Wales. Adult Migrant English Service | title=The reading group | publication-date=1990 | publisher=Picador | isbn=978-0-330-27110-3}}
- 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 =
- 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
- [http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/137 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.
- [http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/782 Green Christine], The Monthly, No. 31, February 2008
- [https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/december/1417352400/amanda-lohrey/welcome-contradiction A Welcome Contradiction: Gambler and MONA founder David Walsh has written a book], The Monthly, December 2014 – January 2015
External links
- [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2413479.htm] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, the Book Show, ABC Radio National, on her novel Vertigo, 10 November 2008.
References
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Category:20th-century Australian novelists
Category:21st-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian women novelists
Category:University of Tasmania alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:20th-century Australian women writers
Category:Miles Franklin Award winners
Category:ALS Gold Medal winners
Category:21st-century Australian women writers
Category:20th-century Australian essayists