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ABOUT

Siang Lu is the award-winning author of The Whitewash, and the co-creator of The Beige Index.

His work has won several awards, including at the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards. His writing has appeared in KYD, Pedestrian, Southerly and Westerly. He has been a speaker at writers festivals around Australia. Siang holds a Master of Letters from the University of Sydney and has written for television on Malaysia's Astro network.


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

He has been forced to deny rumours that he is the secret author of Huxtable Heights, a #MeToo work of underground literature that mashes up Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The Cosby Show, by replacing all of Heathcliff's original dialogue with lines uttered by Heathcliff Huxtable, aka Bill Cosby.

Awards:

  • Australian Book Industry Awards 2023: Winner, Audiobook of the Year

  • Queensland Literary Awards 2020: Winner, Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer

  • New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards 2023: Shortlist, Multicultural NSW Award

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