Louis Nowra is the author of such plays as Inner voices, Visions, Inside the Island, The Precious Woman, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, Byzantine Flowers, The Watchtower, Summer of the Aliens, Cosi, Radiance, The Temple, Crow, The Incorruptible, The Jungle, The Language of the Gods and The Boyce Trilogy. He has written five non-fiction works, The Cheated, Warne’s World, Walkabout, Chihuahuas, Women and Me and Bad Dreaming the novels The Misery of Beauty, Palu, Red Nights, Abaza, Ice and the memoirs The Twelfth of Never and Shooting the Moon. Some of his radio plays include Albert Names Edward, The Song Room, Sydney, The Divine Hammer and Far North. Besides translating such plays as The Prince of Homburg, Cyrano De Bergerac, and Lulu, he has written the telemovies Displaced Persons, Hunger’ and The Lizard King. His screen credits include Map of the Human Heart, Cosi, Heaven’s Burning, The Matchmaker, Radiance, K-19: The Widow maker, Black and White and was co-writer of the documentary series First Australians.  He lives in Sydney and is married to Mandy Sayer.

In The Program

Thursday 6th August   11.00am - 11.45am   Macquarie Marquee   SENIOR SECONDARY - Why I write: the lust for language
Friday 7th August   10.45am - 11.45am   Macquarie Marquee   IN CONVERSATION - First Australians
Sunday 9th August   9.00am - 10.00am   Macquarie Marquee   Take the stage: writing for performance
Sunday 9th August   12.15pm - 1.15pm   SCU Marquee   Not just clogs and shawls: research for historical fiction