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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