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In 2010 Davies also won Australia’s top essay prize, the John Curtin Prize for Best Essay, at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, for his 15,000 word Monthly essay THE PENALTY IS DEATH, about the lives inside of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran, two drug runners on Bali’s death row.
Sep 22, 2008 · This is one of the questions Luke Davies wanted to ask when he spent time with two men on death row at Bali's Kerobokan Prison, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Luke Davies. Biography. Luke is a Welsh speaking actor and presenter with experience in television, audio and live events with the likes of ITV, BBC Wales and S4C. Luke played one of the main cast members on S4C’s ‘Chwarter Call’, Liam on S4C’s ‘Mae Llefydd Gwaeth i Farw’ as well as various characters for the digital comedy platform ...
Jan 28, 2017 · Both nominated for Lion: Dev Patel who is nominated for best supporting actor with screenwriter Luke Davies who is nominated for best adapted screenplay. Credit: Getty Images
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The following decade established Davies as a significant literary voice in Australia. He published several volumes of poetry, Candy became a best-seller and he won an AFI award in 2006 for his script for the movie adaptation. He was a big fish in a small pond but that was about to change dramatically. Licking his wounds from a relationship breakup,...
But Davies' luck began to change. In 2012 he won the Prime Minister's Literary Prize for Poetry. The $80,000 prize money allowed him to clear his debts. Slowly, small jobs led to better jobs. He wrote the script for the movie Life, which did not set the world on fire but got him noticed. Then came Lion. "That was a kind of explosion in my life," Da...
Meanwhile, actor Dev Patel had heard of Brierley's story and told his agent that if a film was being made, he wanted to be in it. When he discovered the script was being developed, he turned up on Davies' doorstep to plead for the role. "Dev Patel runs into the loungeroom and it was just a weird moment," Davis said. "We hadn't even finished the scr...
Davies has certainly been busy. His latest script, Beautiful Boy, is in production with Brad Pitt's company Plan B and he is developing a TV version of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 with Australian director David Michod. And now there is his adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel News of the World, which is set in 1870 and will star Tom Hanks as an itin...
Luke Davies with director, Garth Davis, on the set of Lion Thankfully, Davies has seen a full recovery from long-term illness that he says has given him a resurgence of vitality that he hasn’t felt in years.
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In 2010, Davies won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism, at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, [11] for his essay The Penalty Is Death, [12] about the lives inside prison of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two drug runners on Bali's death row.
