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Amanda Lohrey
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Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland. Amanda is a regular contributor to the Monthly magazine and a former senior fellow of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. She received the 2012 Patrick White Award. The Labyrinth (2021), her eighth work of fiction, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize.

INTERVIEWS and ARTICLES

Age: Why I yearn for the days when ‘losers’ ruled and ambition was un-Australian    
Conversation:  Intellectual fearlessness, politics and the spiritual impulse: the remarkable career of Amanda Lohrey    


Titles byAmanda Lohrey
  • The Conversion
    The Conversion
    Amanda Lohrey
  • The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award
    The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award
    Amanda Lohrey