Louisa Lim

Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist and the author of two non-fiction books.

Her most recent book Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead/Text, 2022) was a New York Times notable book. It also won the OpenBook award for a work in translation and was shortlisted for five awards including the Stella Prize, the Walkley book award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. Her first book The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited (OUP, 2014) was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She is the co-host of the Little Red Podcast, which has had more than 1m downloads. She is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting.

In Residence at Bundanon in 2026

In residence at Bundanon, I will work on my third book, which is a creative non-fiction book about gender, amnesia and diaspora. The research has taken me to archives in London, Oxford and Singapore. I will use the time at Bundanon to work intensively on the book’s structure.