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Occupation
  
Novelist and academic

Name
  
Amanda Lohrey


Role
  
Writer

Education
  
University of Tasmania


Born
  
13 April 1947 (age 76) (
1947-04-13
)
Hobart, Tasmania

Books
  
Camille's Bread, A Short History of Richard K, Voting for Jesus: Christiani, The Philosopher's Doll, Vertigo

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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.

Contents

Amanda lohrey on her remarkable novel a short history of richard kline


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
  • 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award Reading Madame Bovary
  • 2012 Patrick White Award
  • References

    Amanda Lohrey Wikipedia