Julieanne Lamond
Julieanne Lamond is a literary critic and member of the English faculty at Australian National University. She has published essays on Australian literature, reading history, and the relationship between literature and politics. She is co-editor of the journal Australian Literary Studies and lives on Ngunnawal land in Canberra.
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- EXTRACT: Julieanne Lamond Interviews Amanda Lohrey
Tasmania’s Parliament House is a graceful Georgian sandstone building facing the Hobart waterfront. It is here, on the steps of the parliament, that Amanda Lohrey suggested we meet for the interview, so that I could see at firsthand the docks and backstreets of the waterfront that constituted the setting of her first novel, The Morality of Gentlemen. Lohrey has a frank, straightforward manner and a penetrating gaze. There is a steadiness about her, as though others can flap about all they like and she’ll wait until they have finished. She has a remarkable voice, deep and sonorous, which holds a calm authority but is very ready to register a wry humour.