A loft apartment in Paris’ 10th arrondissement is filled with happily groaning bookshelves, chic comfortable furniture, decks, and a large wooden table. Australian writer Luke Davies, busy but cool and calm, is in jeans, a “No Regrets” tiger T-shirt and funky green trainers at his ‘puter surrounded by books, notepads and multi-coloured felt tip pens.

“Some friends offered me their place to look after for a few weeks and I thought ‘why not’,” he explains. “It’s a converted 19th-century sequins and button factory that served the Paris theatre district – I love it. And It’s a great little neighbourhood. Not really touristy; it’s busy and a bit chaotic and close to a lots of stuff.”

“Tea? Water?”

Davies, writer of cult novel Candy (and feature film starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish Candy), has a bulging and rapidly growing body of work published in five languages.

Among his awards and accolades are the The Age literary award for Totem Poem and The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry for Interferons Psalms that was hailed by Peter Craven in The Australian as ‘’one of the most ambitious performances in modern Australian poetry that will command the world’s attention’’.

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