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1. theconversation.com › sydney-a-biography-is-louisSydney: A Biography is Louis Nowra’s love letter to his ...

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   Dec 14, 2022 · Louis Nowra’s inspired biography of Sydney starts with a surprise visit to the city. He grew up in a housing commission estate in Melbourne.

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2. www.afr.com › life-and-luxury › arts-and-cultureAuthor Louis Nowra on his new biography of Sydney and being ...

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   Nov 17, 2022 · Meet Louis Nowra, a Melbournian whose heart was found and healed in his adopted Sydney, the city he has just written a 500-page “biography” about.

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3. www.canberratimes.com.au › story › 7191488Rep presents Louis Nowra's Cosi, a classic Aussie comedy

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   Apr 4, 2021 · Find out in Louis Nowra's quasi-autobiographical comedy Cosi. Canberra Repertory Society's production of the 1992 Australian play opens soon at Theatre 3. It will be Rep's second production in 2021.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Louis_NowraLouis Nowra - Wikipedia

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   Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights.

5. www.booksandpublishing.com.au › articles › 2022Sydney: A biography (Louis Nowra, NewSouth) - Books+Publishing

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   Oct 4, 2022 · Whether describing the complex relationships between the original Eora peoples and Governor Phillip, or the story behind the Tank Stream, a smelly stormwater drain with a glorious past, Nowra captures the everchanging spirit of what is arguably—to most, and inarguably to Nowra—Australia’s pre-eminent city.

6. artsreview.com.au › the-golden-age-2The Golden Age - Australian Arts Review

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   Jan 14, 2016 · Inspired by this true story, writer Louis Nowra (Cosi, Radiance) penned The Golden Age – an extraordinary play that blends historical fact, Australian folklore and poetic language to create a post-colonial myth for our times.

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   Who is Louis Nowra?

   • Louis Nowra’s inspired biography of Sydney starts with a surprise visit to the city. He grew up in a housing commission estate in Melbourne. In 1959, while on a trip with his father to Wollongong in a truck to pick up a load of coke (for fireplaces, not drinking), his father took a detour – to Sydney. Nowra was nine.

   Sydney: A Biography is Louis Nowra’s love letter to his adopted city

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   How many books has Louis Nowra written?

   • Perfection. For those who don’t know, Louis Nowra is one of Australia’s most prolific, and successful, writers. He has written 36 plays, five works of non-fiction, six novels, two memoirs, 13 scripts for TV and film, five libretti, and numerous essays and assorted bits and pieces.

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   How old was Nowra when he went to Sydney?

   • In 1959, while on a trip with his father to Wollongong in a truck to pick up a load of coke (for fireplaces, not drinking), his father took a detour – to Sydney. Nowra was nine. After being driven through congested inner-city streets, he found himself on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

   Sydney: A Biography is Louis Nowra’s love letter to his adopted city

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   Why does Louis Nowra love the painting in the National Portrait Gallery?

   • We chat about the portrait of him in the National Portrait Gallery painted by Imants Tillers, which he loves because “nobody can recognise me”. ‘Study of Louis Nowra’, 2018, by Imants Tillers. Nowra says he loves the painting because “there’s nothing of me in it”. NPG “There’s nothing of me in it. It’s all Imants Tillers. His interpretation.

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   Where is Nowra's Sydney?

   • “That was it,” says Nowra. Nowra’s Sydney is bounded by the patch of land and harbour shores that take in Kings Cross, Woolloomooloo, Chippendale, The Rocks, Ultimo and, now, Barangaroo.

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   Where is Nowra based?

   • For most of his years in Sydney, Nowra has based himself in Kings Cross, where he feels an affinity for the ne’er well dos, the down and outers, the drug addicts, the sex workers and tourists, their eyes red with booze and boggled at the sight of so much sin on the streets.

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8. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au › culture › theLouis Nowra on the nonfiction book Wisconsin Death Trip

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   Feb 10, 2024 · February 10 – 16, 2024 | No. 486. Author and playwright Louis Nowra says the historical nonfiction book Wisconsin Death Trip changed his life through its macabre insights into another world.