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Louis Nowra (Mark Doyle) was born on 12 December, 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. Discover Louis Nowra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Mark Doyle
Occupation Playwright, screenwriter, librettist, author
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 12 December, 1950
Birthday 12 December
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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His wife is Mandy Sayer (m. 2003), Sarah de Jong (m. 1974–1984)

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1921

His mother told him as a boy that he would hear stories about her having killed a man, but he was not to believe any version but her own, which she would not Reveal until his 21st birthday.

His sister later told him that their mother had killed her own father, their grandfather.

1950

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.

His works have been performed by all of Australia's major theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Belvoir, and many others, and have also had many international productions.

His most significant plays are Così, Radiance (both of which he turned into films), Byzantine Flowers, Summer of the Aliens and The Golden Age.

1970

In the early 1970s he walked out of his Australian literature studies at Melbourne's La Trobe University.

The subject of a tutorial was Patrick White's novel The Tree of Man.

Nowra stood up, said he thought it was dreadful, walked out and never returned to finish his degree.

He later had a difficult personal relationship with Patrick White.

White championed Nowra's early work (Visions, Inside the Island), even taking out a paid advertisement in The Sydney Morning Herald when they refused to publish his letter admonishing the theatre critic H. G. Kippax, who had been negative about the plays.

But Nowra never liked White's work.

White could also be very negative about Nowra.

He attended the premiere of Nowra's translation of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, but left the auditorium before the start because he thought, sight unseen, it would be uninteresting.

His partner Manoly Lascaris refused to leave, so White sat out the performance in the foyer.

Nowra had a similarly challenging relationship with the actress Judy Davis, who appeared in some of his plays.

Nowra considered both White and Davis had personalities that combined self-loathing, narcissism, ruthlessness and haughty egos.

1971

On his 21st birthday, 12 December 1971, his mother confirmed this, and said that it had occurred on 12 December 1945, exactly five years before he was born, which was why there were no celebrations of his own birthday.

His mother was charged with murder but acquitted on the ground of extreme provocation after years of alcohol-fuelled violence.

She in turn was abusive towards her own son, often telling him he was stupid and worthless, making him walk down the street in his sister's dresses as a punishment, and telling him he was "behind the door when looks were given out".

His father was also abusive when he was around, but he was an interstate truck driver who was not often home.

His mother has not seen, heard or read any of his work, and he has had almost no contact with her since he left Melbourne.

He has had no contact with his father at all.

He developed an early love of theatre through his uncle Bob Herbert (or Bob Herbert-Hay), a stage manager for J. C. Williamson's productions.

1973

His first plays were written at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in 1973.

Soon after abandoning his university degree, he got into his car one day and decided to drive north, as far away from his parents as possible, but without any clear destination.

He reached the NSW coastal town of Nowra, when his car broke down.

He had already decided to abandon his birth name, and chose Nowra because of this enforced stop.

1996

His script for 1996 movie Cosi, which revolves around a group of mentally ill patients who put on a play, won the Australian Film Institute Award that year for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Nowra's work as a scriptwriter also includes a credit on the comedy The Matchmaker and the Vincent Ward romance Map of the Human Heart, which was invited to the Cannes Film Festival.

1999

He has written two memoirs, The Twelfth of Never (1999) and Shooting the Moon (2004).

2003

His radio plays include Albert Names Edward, The Song Room, The Widows and the five part The Divine Hammer, which aired on the ABC in 2003.

2006

In 2006 he completed The Boyce Trilogy for Griffin Theatre Company, consisting of The Woman with Dog's Eyes, The Marvellous Boy and The Emperor of Sydney.

2007

In March 2007, Nowra published a controversial book on violence in Aboriginal communities, Bad Dreaming.

2008

He was also one of the principal writers for the multi award-winning 2008 SBS TV series, First Australians.

Nowra is also a cultural commentator, with essays and commentary appearing regularly in The Monthly and the Australian Literary Review as well as major newspapers.

He has been married three times, and is bisexual, having had relationships with men as well.

Nowra was born Mark Doyle in Melbourne, to the second of his mother's three husbands.

His birthdays were never celebrated with parties when he was growing up, and he could never quite understand why.

2009

His 2009 novel Ice was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.