Biography
Siang Lu is the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and The Whitewash, the co-creator of The Beige Index and the creator of @sillybookstagram. Ghost Cities has been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, the VPLA John Clarke Humour Award, the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award and The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year at the Queensland Literary Awards.
The Whitewash won the ABIA Audiobook of the Year in 2023.
In 2023 Siang was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Asian-Australians at the Asian Australian Leadership Awards.
He is based in Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
