As for the sun or relatives, the further away the better.

Writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist                          

Selected Works:

Plays:

Kiss The One-Eyed Priest - 1973
Death Of Joe Orton - 1974
Inner Voices - 1977
The Lady Of The Camellias - 1979
Visions - 1979
Beauty And The Beast - 1980
Cyrano De Bergerac - 1980
Inside The Island - 1981
The Precious Woman - 1981
Lulu - 1981
The Prince Of Homburg - 1982
Radiance
Royal Show - 1982
Spellbound - 1982
Sunrise - 1983
Albert Names Edward - 1983
The Golden Age - 1985
Beatrice
The Song Room - Editions Rodopi, 1987
Capricornia - 1988
Byzantine Flowers - 1989
Summer of the Aliens - 1992
Così - 1992
Crow
Incorruptible - 1995
Jungle - 1995
Language of the Gods - 1999
Miss Bosnia
The Temple
Watchtower
Devil Is A Woman - 2004
The Woman with Dog's Eyes - 2004
The Marvellous Boy - 2005
The Emperor of Sydney - 2006
Page 8 - 2006

Non-fiction Writing:
The Cheated - 1979
Warne's World - 2002
Bad Dreaming - 2007

Novels:

The Misery of Beauty - 1976
Palu - 1987
Red Nights - 1997
Abaza -  2001
Ice - 2008

Memoirs:
The Twelfth of Never -  1999
Shooting the Moon - 2004


Screen Writing:

Displaced Persons - 1984
Hunger - 1986
The Last Resort - TV Series. 1988
Map of the Human Heart - 1992
Heaven's Burning - 1997
Radiance - associate producer/writer, 1998
Twisted Tales Directly From My Heart to You - 1996
The Matchmaker - screen play, 1997
Così - screen play, 1997
K-19: The Widowmaker - 2002
Black and White - 2002
Rain of the Children - additional dialogue, 2008

Libretti:
Inner Voices Victorian State Opera - 1978
Whitsunday Opera Australia - 1988
Love Burns Seymour Group - 1992 Adelaide Festival of Arts
On the Beach Victorian Arts Centre Rio Tinto Grant - 2000

Essays:

Nowhere Near Hollywood: Australian Film., The Monthly, December 2009 - January 2010
The Whirling Dervish: Tony Abott.,The Monthly, February 2010
The Better Self?: Germaine Greer and the Female Eunuch., The Monthly, March 2010.                          

Awards:

1990 – Prix Italia award, for the radio play Summer of the Aliens
1992 – Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Prize for the play Cosi
1994 – Winner of Victoria Premier's, Louis Esson Prize for Drama for The Temple
1994 – Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for Radiance and The Temple
1994 – The Australia/Canada Award
1995 – Green Room Award for Best New Play
1996 – Honorary Doctorate – Griffith University, 1996[4]
1996 – Australian Film Institute Award – Best Adapted Screenplay for Cosi
1999 – Nominated for Green Room Award Best New Australian Play for Language of the Gods
2000 – Nominated for New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for The Twelfth of Never
2000 – Courier-Mail Book of The Year for The Twelfth of Never
2009 – Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award for Ice.
2009 - First Australians: Logie Award: Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series
2009 - First Australians: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Script Writing Award for Louis Nowra, Rachel Perkins & Beck Cole
2009 - First Australians: Australian Writers' Guild Award: Outstanding Writing in a Documentary (Episode 1) for Louis Nowra, Rachel Perkins