Evelyn Lau

Autor(a) de Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid

16+ Works 525 Membros 7 Reviews

About the Author

Evelyn Yee-Fun Lau was born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971 to Chinese immigrants. Her parents were obsessive about their children, demanding constant top performance at school and expecting Lau to become a medical doctor. In 1983 she began publishing poems and short stories in magazines. Early in mostrar mais 1986 she ran away from her unbearable family and school life. She became a drug abuser and prostitute in Vancouver and chronicling in her diary her life on the streets and her struggle as an emerging writer. The manuscript became a bestseller when it was published in 1989 under the title Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, and was later turned into a made-for-television movie. Fresh Girls & Other Stories published in 1993, established her as one of Canada's leading writers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras de Evelyn Lau

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Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (1989) 135 cópias

Fresh Girls and Other Stories (1993) 130 cópias

Other Women (1995) 82 cópias

Oedipal Dreams (1992) 34 cópias

Inside Out: Reflections on a Life So Far (2001) 31 cópias

Choose Me (1999) 22 cópias

In the House of Slaves (1994) 20 cópias

You Are Not Who You Claim (1994) 15 cópias

Living Under Plastic (2010) 14 cópias

Treble (2005) 12 cópias

Henry Chow and Other Stories (Asian Canadian Writers Workshp) (2009) 12 cópias

Grain of Rice (2012) 6 cópias

Pineapple Express (2020) 6 cópias

Roses 2 cópias

PULP Literature No.21: Winter 2019 (2018) 2 cópias

Tumour (2016) 2 cópias

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Associated Works

Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contribuinte — 150 cópias

The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (1996) — Contribuinte — 113 cópias

The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Contribuinte — 102 cópias

The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuinte — 81 cópias

On a Bed of Rice (1995) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias

Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento: 1971-07-02
Sexo: female
Nacionalidade: Canada
Agente: The Bukowski Agency

Membros

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Tumour de Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau has a way of speaking directly to my soul, at once understanding it and taking it by surprise with the clarity of her revelations.

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eurydactyl | Jul 20, 2023 |

You Are Not Who You Claim de Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau perfectly captures the Vancouver that exists for those struggling the most in that beautiful, suffocating, grey city. The way she crafts each verse is so elegant and authentic, gritty and dreamy at the same time, just like Vancouver. She always knows how to speak directly to my soul. As I see her, I feel her seeing me.

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eurydactyl | 1 outra resenha | Jul 20, 2023 |