Louisa Lim

{{Short description|Journalist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Louisa C. Lim

| image = Louisa Lim in the online discussion 'ACLF 2021 – How do we coexist with China'.png

| caption = In an online discussion in 2021

| other_names = 林慕蓮

| birth_place = Hong Kong

| education = University of Melbourne (PhD)

| occupation = Journalist

| website = {{URL|https://www.louisalim.com}}

}}

Louisa C. Lim is a journalist and author.{{Cite web|url=https://kellogg.nd.edu/louisa-lim|title=Louisa Lim | Kellogg Institute For International Studies|website=kellogg.nd.edu}} She is the co-host of The Little Red Podcast, a podcast covering China.{{Cite web|url=https://www.csaa.org.au/2016/12/little-red-podcast/|title=Little Red Podcast|date=December 20, 2016}}

Lim holds a PhD in journalism from the University of Melbourne. Her thesis is titled In Search of the King of Kowloon: Hong Kong’s Identity Crisis and the Media Creation of an Icon.{{Citation |author1=Lim |first=Louisa C. |title=In Search of the King of Kowloon; Hong Kong's Identity Crisis and the Media Creation of an Icon |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/247991375 |publication-date=2021 |publisher=University of Melbourne |access-date=15 December 2022}} She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/louisa-lim/|title=Louisa Lim|website=The Wheeler Centre}}

Lim was born in Hong Kong to an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother.{{cite web|last=Qin|first=Amy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/books/review/in-hong-kong-the-search-for-a-single-identity.html|title=In Hong Kong, the Search for a Single Identity|newspaper=New York Times|date=2022-05-18|accessdate=2022-06-08}}{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Michael|url=https://www.afr.com/world/asia/vanishing-hong-kong-it-knew-i-was-crossing-a-line-but-i-didn-t-care-20220517-p5am0a|title=Vanishing Hong Kong: 'I knew I was crossing a line but I didn't care'|work=Australian Financial Review|date=2022-05-20|accessdate=2022-06-08}} She worked as a journalist, living in China for around 10 years, and having experience working for BBC and National Public Radio (NPR). She has stated that her level of speaking Cantonese was "shamefully basic" but she identifies as a Hong Konger regardless.

The People's Republic of Amnesia was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.{{cite web | url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/indelible-city-dispossession-and-defiance-hong-kong | title=Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong | date=6 June 2022 }} Indelible City was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction,{{Cite web |title=The 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards |url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2023/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=The Wheeler Centre |language=en-US}} the 2023 Stella Prize{{Cite news |last=Harmon |first=Steph |date=2023-03-29 |title=Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/30/stella-prize-2023-shortlist-small-publishers-dominate-australian-literary-award |access-date=2023-03-30}} and the 2023 Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards,{{Cite web |date=2023-08-02 |title=Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/08/02/234999/queensland-literary-awards-2023-shortlists/ |access-date=2023-08-02 |publisher=Books+Publishing}} and also for the Nonfiction Award at the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-26 |title=Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/10/26/239949/prime-ministers-literary-awards-2023-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2023-10-26 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}