Siang Lu at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Join the National Film and Sound Archives Australia for a book club with Siang Lu, Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Ghost Citiesand ABIA Award-winning author of The Whitewash.

The book club will be following a screening of The Orchid Thief, where Siang Lu will be in conversation with Beejay Silcox.

Siang Lu is the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Ghost Cities and ABIA Award-winning author of The Whitewash. He co-created The Beige Index, a ‘Bechdel Test’ for race, exploring ethnic representation on the IMDb Top 250 Films, and created #sillybookstagram, an Instagram page dedicated to Siang playfully defacing books by his author friends.

Ghost Cities was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, the VPLA John Clarke Humour Award, the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize, the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award and The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year at the Queensland Literary Awards. Siang lives between Brisbane, Australia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.