Luke Davies
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Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.
Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty.
His novel Candy was made into a film starring Heath Ledger in 2006. His other works include the novels Isabelle the Navigator and God of Speed, and several volumes of poetry - Four Plots for Magnets, Absolute Event Horizon, Running With Light and Totem.
Davies' brother Ben Davies, an Australian television producer, now teaches at Armidale Film and Television School in NSW, Australia. Youngest brother Felix Davies, is a Sound Recordist and Composer, residing in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1995: Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize Shortlisted for Absolute Event Horizon
- 1998: A Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year
- 2000: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Poetry Prize for Running With Light
- 2004: The Age Poetry Book of the Year for Totem
- 2004: Overall Age Book of the Year for Totem
- 2004: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Totem
- 2004: Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival[1]
- 2006: South Australian Premier's Awards, John Bray Poetry Award for Totem
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Candy (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 1997)
- Candy (Vintage Books, London 1998)
- Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (Ballantine Books, New York 1998) ISBN 0345423879 (note: Davies made small but significant changes to the US and UK editions; he considers that the Australian edition, second edition and afterwards, is the definitive version.)
- Isabelle the Navigator (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 2000)
- Isabelle the Navigator (Berkley Books, New York 2002) ISBN 0425186040
- God of Speed (Allen and Unwin, 2008), about Howard Hughes [2]
[edit] Poetry
- Four plots for magnets (Glandular Press, 1982) ISBN 0959413030
- Absolute event horizon : poems (Angus & Robertson, 1994) ISBN 020718402X
- Running with light : poems (Allen & Unwin, 1999) ISBN 1865080128
- Totem : Totem poem plus 40 love poems (Allen & Unwin, 2004) ISBN 1741143489 Review
[edit] Articles
- Davies, Luke (March 2009). "Tales of the City". The Monthly 43: 64–66. http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/1463. Film review of Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant.
- Davies, Luke (September 2008). "The Penalty is Death". The Monthly 38. http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/1186.
- Davies, Luke (March 2008). "Heath Ledger, 1979–2008". The Monthly 32. http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/821.
- Davies, Luke (April 2007). "Extravagant Stillness: Philip Gröning’s 'Into Great Silence'". The Monthly 22. http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/490.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Mildura Writers' Festival, Thursday 20 – Sunday 23 July 2006". Arts Festival 07 Mildura/Wentworth. Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20070608112227/http://www.mwaf.com.au/html/mainnav/writers.html. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ Allen & Unwin Frankfurt 2007 Adult Titles
[edit] References
- ABC TV Sunday Arts 30 July 2006 Accessed: 16 July 2007
- Steger, Jason (2004) "Love in the time of poetry" in The Age 21 August 2007 Accessed: 16 July 2007
- Candy Film Review
[edit] External links
- Luke Davies' Agent
- [1] Profile on Davies in The Australian Weekend Magazine, March 2008
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