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Louis Nowra


Born
in Melbourne, Australia
December 12, 1950

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Louis Nowra (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist. His most significant plays are Così, Byzantine Flowers, Summer of the Aliens, Radiance, and The Golden Age. In 2007 he completed the The Boyce Trilogy for Griffin Theatre Company, consisting of The Woman with Dog's Eyes, The Marvellous Boy and The Emperor of Sydney. Many of his plays have been filmed.[1]
He was born as Mark Doyle in Melbourne. He changed his name to Louis Nowra in the early 1970s. He studied at Melbourne's La Trobe University without earning a degree. In his memoir, The Twelfth of Never, Nowra claimed that he left the course due to a conflict with his professor on Patrick White's The Tree of Man. He worked in several jobs an ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 4,111 ratings · 535 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors
Into That Forest
3.82 avg rating — 1,674 ratings — published 2012 — 26 editions
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Così
3.39 avg rating — 934 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions
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The Goodbye Party
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Summer of the Aliens
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Kings Cross: A biography
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The Golden Age
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Prince of Afghanistan
3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Sydney: A Biography
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Radiance
3.09 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Ice
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“I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.”
― Louis Nowra, Così
tags: drugs, love
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“Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.”
― Louis Nowra, Summer of the Aliens
tags: budgie, grandma
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“I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.”
― Louis Nowra, Summer of the Aliens
tags: sister, thoughts
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