Louisa Lim

Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist, podcaster and author. Her newest book Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Text, 2022) was also shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her first book The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (OUP, 2014) was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. She is a Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Journalism at the University of Melbourne. She previously spent a decade in China as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, and her work can also be read in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post.