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Louis Nowra interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 126510
Format AudioAudio
Author
Nowra, Louis, 1950-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1981 Feb. 5. 
1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.) 
Series

Hazel de Berg collection ; DeB 1213

Summary

Nowra speaks of his family and of his studies at La Trobe University; his reasons for writing plays; his novel "The misery of beauty"; about the staging of his play "Visions". Nowra provides some background details for other plays he has written; he speaks of his future as a playwright and of the influences in his life.

Notes

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Related Material Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981; located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC/13505 frames 3A-7A LOC Cold store PIC PORT 
Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (23 p.) 
Subjects Nowra, Louis, - 1950- - Interviews.  |  Dramatists, Australian - Interviews.  |  Novelists, Australia - Interviews.
Other authors/contributors De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984

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    ORAL TRC 1/1213
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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 1/1213 (transcript)
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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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