Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.

Works

Plays

Kiss The One-Eyed Priest (1973) Death of Joe Orton (1974) Inner Voices (Currency Press, 1977) The Lady of the Camellias (1979) Visions (Currency Press, 1979) Beauty and the Beast (1980) Cyrano De Bergerac (1980; translation of Edmond Rostand's French play) Inside The Island (Currency Press, 1981) The Precious Woman (Currency Press, 1981) Lulu (1981; adapted from Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box) The Prince of Homburg (1982) Royal Show (1982) Spellbound (1982) Sunrise (Currency Press, 1983) Albert Names Edward (Currency Press, 1983) The Golden Age (Currency Press, 1985) The Song Room (Editions Rodopi, 1987) Capricornia (Currency Press, 1988; adapted from Xavier Herbert's novel) Byzantine Flowers (1989) Watchtower (1990) Summer of the Aliens (Currency Press, 1992) Così (Currency Press, 1992) Radiance (1993) The Temple (1993) Crow (1994) Incorruptible (Currency Press, 1995) Jungle (1995) Miss Bosnia (1995) Language of the Gods (Currency Press, 1999) Beatrice (2003) Devil Is A Woman (2004) Boyce Trilogy: The Woman with Dog's Eyes (2004) The Marvellous Boy (2005) The Emperor of Sydney (2006) Page 8 (2006) This Much Is True (2017) Non-fiction writing The Cheated (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1979) Warne's World (Duffy & Snellgrove, Australia, 2002) Bad Dreaming (Pluto Press, Australia, 2007) Kings Cross: A Biography (NewSouth Publishing, Australia, 2013) Woolloomooloo: A Biography (NewSouth Publishing, Australia, 2017) Novels The Misery of Beauty (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1976) Palu (Picador, Australia, 1987) Red Nights (Picador, Australia, 1997) Abaza (Picador, Australia, 2001) Ice (Allen & Unwin, 2008) Into That Forest (Allen & Unwin, 2012)

Memoirs

The Twelfth of Never (Picador, Australia, 1999) ISBN 978-0-330-36187-3 Shooting the Moon (Picador, Australia, 2004) ISBN 978-0-330-36490-4

Screenwriting

Displaced Persons (1985) (TV film) Hunger (1986) The Lizard King (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 (screenplay, 1997) Così (screenplay, 1997) K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Black and White (2002) Rain of the Children (additional dialogue, 2008)

Libretti

Inner Voices Victorian State Opera, 1978[2] Whitsunday Opera Australia, 1988 Love Burns Seymour Group, 1992 Adelaide Festival of Arts On the Beach Victorian Arts Centre Rio Tinto Grant 2000 Midnight Son, Victorian Opera 2012

Anthologies

In the Gutter ... Looking at the Stars: A Literary Adventure Through Kings Cross (2000; ed. Louis Nowra, Mandy Sayer)