Luke Davies

Luke Davies is the Oscar-nominated screen writer of Lion and the author of two novels, Isabelle the Navigator and the cult bestseller Candy, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and has been published in Britain and the United States and translated into German, Spanish, Hebrew, French, and Greek. A film version starring Heath Ledger was released in 2006 and won Davies Best Adapted Screenplay at the AFI Awards. Davies was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry in 2004. He has published seven books of poetry, including Running With Light which was the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Totem, which won the John Bray Poetry Prize and The Age Book of The Year Award. Interferon Psalms won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Davies lives in Los Angeles.