Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025
Siang Lu has won the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for his novel Ghost Cities(UQP).
Lu is an author based in both Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, who previously wrote The Whitewash (UQP). He is co-creator of The Beige Index and creator of #sillybookstagram on Instagram.
Ghost Cities was chosen from a longlist of 10, followed by a shortlist of six by the judges: State Library of NSW librarian Richard Neville (chair) and literary scholars Jumana Bayeh, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth and Hsu-Ming Teo.
The judges called Ghost Cities ‘a bold and satirical reimagining of Australian storytelling’.
Ghost Cities has been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.