''Reading Madame Bovary'' (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author

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 s ...

. It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across ...

in 2011.

* "Primates" * "Reading Madame Bovary" * "Ground Zero" * "Freedom, Order and the Golden Bead Material" * "Perfect" * "The Art of Convalesence" * "The Existence of Other Men" * "John Lennon's Gardener" * "Letter to the Romans"

Reviews

Carol Middleton in ''Overland'' was impressed by the stories: "Lohrey has a remarkable ability to be lyrical and profound while keeping both feet in the here and now of Australian life. For a ‘literary’ writer, she is refreshingly comfortable with the mundane minutiae of modern life (to-do lists and washing up) and, from there, teases out the themes and issues that lie beneath the surface of contemporary consciousness.""''Reading Madame Bovary'' by Amanda Lohrey" by Carol Middleton ''Overland'', 21 January 2011
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Awards and nominations

* 2011 winner

– Best Fiction Book * 2011 winner

– Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award

Contents

Reviews

Awards and nominations

References

See also