Amanda Lohrey


Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey 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

Novels

The Morality of Gentlemen The Reading Group Camille's Bread The Philosopher's Doll Vertigo Reading Madame Bovary A Short History of Richard Kline The Labyrinth
  • ''The Conversion''

Essays

The Clear Voice Suddenly Singing. An essay in Secrets by Drusilla Modjeska, Amanda Lohrey, Robert Dessaix. Pan MacMillan, 1997The Project of the Self under Late-Capitalism. The Best Australian Essays 2001, pp. 246–65. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty LtdReading Madame Bovary. The Best Australian Stories 2002, pp. 14–39. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty LtdGroundswell: The Rise of the Greens Quarterly Essay 8. 2002, pp. 1–86. Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing Pty LtdWriting The Morality of Gentlemen. Hecate, Vol. 30, 2004 pp. 193–200. Hecate Press