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Evelyn Lau (innate July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She was innate inside Vancouver to Chinese-Canadian parents. Her parents experienced high expectations of her, hoping she would get the doctor. Her personal life wwhen unhappy, nonetheless, as was her school life. Around 1984, at age Fourteen, she left residence & began dwelling on the streets of Vancouver, one of these days turning to prostitution and drugs. Universally wanting to become the writer she saved the diary which wwhen published as Runaway: Diary of the Street Child within 1989. the graphic book was a critical & commercial profits. Her subsequent volumes of poetry & her foremost novel confirmed her when one of Canada's smashing immature literary talents. She experienced a swell publicised romance sustaining the older writer W. P. Kinsella, a relationship that ended up with him suing her for libel. She presently sleep in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Works: Runaway: Diary of the Street Child - 1989 Your family is Non World health organization We Claim - 1990 Oedipal Dreams - 1992 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Newly Girls & More Stories - 1993 In the Home of Slaves - 1994 More Women - 1995 Explore Us - 1999 In Retired: Reflectiin on the Life Therefore Far - 2001

Imprint: Evelyn Lau's 'Other Women'
Review from the University of Waterloo's student newspaper.

Northwest Passage: Evelyn Lau
Biography and selected bibliography.

Evelyn Lau Owes W.P. Kinsella an Apology
Article from CBC Infoculture.

Choosing Evelyn Lau
Interview with the author about her collection of short stories, 'Choose Me'.

100 Canadian Poets: Evelyn Lau
Brief biography, publications, and list of critical materials.






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