Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey (; 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 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction Camille's Bread 2011 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award Reading Madame Bovary 2021 winner Voss Literary Prize, The Labyrinth 2021 winner Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, The Labyrinth