Siang Lu

Siang Lu is the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and ABIA-winning author of The Whitewash. He is the creator of #sillybookstagram.

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Siang Lu

Siang Lu is the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and ABIA-winning author of The Whitewash. He is the co-creator of The Beige Index and the creator of #sillybookstagram.

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 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.

Siang is based in Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Festival Events

This Modern Life: Siang Lu, Katharine Pollock, Clare Stephens

DATE March 28 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book now

Ghost Cities: Siang Lu in Conversation

DATE March 29 TIME 10:00 am WHEREHunter Room Newcastle City Hall Book now

BY THE ARTIST

A book cover featuring overlapping black and white images of high-rise city buildings and the title "Ghost Cities" in bold black letters through the centre of the page

Ghost Cities

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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