Luke Davies

 His first poetry collection Four Plots for Magnets was published in 1982 by S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press. Long out of print, it was published again (with additional poetry and prose) by Pitt Street Poetry in 2013. Based on his novel of 1997 Candy, he co-wrote the screenplay of the 2006 film Candy. Heath Ledger stars as Abbie Cornish, and Abbie Hornish as heroin addicts. Davies was addicted to heroin in the 1990s. He was the screenwriter for News of the World 2020 that he adapted from Paulette Jiles’ novel. In 2010, Davies won the John Curtin Award for Journalism, in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for his essay The Penalty Is Death, about the lives inside prison of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two drug runners who were on Bali's death row. (They were executed by firing squad to great public controversy in the year 2015. )His Magpie, a book for children, Magpie, was published by ABC Books in 2010