Luke Davies

Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays.

Davies' first poetry collection, "Four Plots for Magnets", was published in 1982, when he was twenty.

His novel "", was made into a film starring Heath Ledger in 2006. His other works include the novels, "Isabelle the Navigator" and "God of Speed", and 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.

Awards & 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 Festivalcite web |title= Mildura Writers' Festival, Thursday 20 - Sunday 23 July 2006 |publisher= Arts Festival 07 Mildura/Wentworth |url= http://www.mwaf.com.au/html/mainnav/writers.html |accessdate= 2007-08-04 ]
*2006: South Australian Premier's Awards, John Bray Poetry Award for "Totem"

Bibliography

Novels

* "Candy" (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 1997)
* "Candy" (Vintage Books, London 1998)
* "" (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 [ [http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:a-YttFPb4ecJ:www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/AboutAandU/Frankfurt2007.pdf+%22luke+davies%22+%22god+of+speed%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au&client=firefox-a Allen & Unwin "Frankfurt 2007 Adult Titles"] ]

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 [http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000536.html Review]

Notes

References

* [http://origin.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/txt/Sunday30July2006.htm "ABC TV Sunday Arts" 30 July 2006] Accessed: 16 July 2007
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/18/1092765003067.html Steger, Jason (2004) "Love in the time of poetry" in "The Age" 21 August 2007] Accessed: 16 July 2007
* [http://www.dendyfilms.com.au/candy/?page_id=9&siteArea=cast&member=lukedavies Candy Film Review]

External links

* [http://www.hlamgt.com.au Luke Davies' Agent]
* [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23409115-5012694,00.html] Profile on Davies in The Australian Weekend Magazine, March 2008