diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
index b9b4e86fc..4a9ac8a41 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -742,6 +742,9 @@ environments = M.fromList
   , ("lstlisting", codeBlock <$> (verbEnv "lstlisting"))
   , ("minted", liftA2 (\l c -> codeBlockWith ("",[l],[]) c)
             (grouped (many1 $ satisfy (/= '}'))) (verbEnv "minted"))
+  , ("obeylines", parseFromString
+                  (para . trimInlines . mconcat <$> many inline) =<<
+                  intercalate "\\\\\n" . lines <$> verbEnv "obeylines")
   , ("displaymath", mathEnv Nothing "displaymath")
   , ("equation", mathEnv Nothing "equation")
   , ("equation*", mathEnv Nothing "equation*")
diff --git a/tests/latex-reader.latex b/tests/latex-reader.latex
index cd424baec..dd7854eb1 100644
--- a/tests/latex-reader.latex
+++ b/tests/latex-reader.latex
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ And:
 
 These should not be escaped:  \$ \\ \> \[ \{
 \end{verbatim}
+
+\begin{obeylines}
+this has \emph{two
+lines}
+\end{obeylines}
 \begin{center}\rule{3in}{0.4pt}\end{center}
 
 \section{Lists}
diff --git a/tests/latex-reader.native b/tests/latex-reader.native
index 2ba7a78f2..b7cf39bc3 100644
--- a/tests/latex-reader.native
+++ b/tests/latex-reader.native
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Pandoc (Meta {docTitle = [Str "Pandoc",Space,Str "Test",Space,Str "Suite"], docA
 ,CodeBlock ("",[],[]) "---- (should be four hyphens)\n\nsub status {\n    print \"working\";\n}\n\nthis code block is indented by one tab"
 ,Para [Str "And:"]
 ,CodeBlock ("",[],[]) "    this code block is indented by two tabs\n\nThese should not be escaped:  \\$ \\\\ \\> \\[ \\{"
+,Para [Str "this",Space,Str "has",Space,Emph [Str "two",LineBreak,Str "lines"]]
 ,HorizontalRule
 ,Header 1 [Str "Lists"]
 ,Header 2 [Str "Unordered"]