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	VG: Artist Biography: Lau, Evelyn
		Evelyn Yee-Fun Lau was born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971 to Chinese immigrants.
		Lau claims to have been conscious of her urge to become a writer since she was six.
		Lau's prose and poetry have a "nowhere place" and "no direction home" feel about them that may derive from her uprooted and dysfunctional family background but which primarily signifiy a basic condition of the modern mind.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/lau_evelyn.html (842 words)

	Imprint: Arts - Evelyn Lau - Other Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In an interestingly written style, Lau alternates chapter narration from her own third person narration in the odd numbered chapters to Fiona's personal narration in even numbered chapters.
		When Lau describes Fiona, we see what she is like from the outside, a person driven by obsession.
		Evelyn Lau wrote a book entitled Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid in 1989 and three collections of poetry: You Are Not Who You Claim, 1990, Oedipal Dreams, 1992 and In the House of Slaves, 1994.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/020797/6Arts/arts06.html (465 words)

	Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› Fresh Girls and Other Stories - Evelyn Lau - Hardcover - 1st Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1971, Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver to Chinese immigrants.
		Lau, who was once considered a "one-hit wonder," went on to publish three volumes of poetry, a novel, and a collection of short stories.
		Lau: I was at this dinner party where there were several litigators, you know people who actually go to court and argue cases, and it was Friday night.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0786860588.html (3205 words)

	Evelyn Lau to quit writing?
		Lau has received criticism from readers who feel such depictions are "unkind." It is, however, disillusionment rather than contempt for older male sexuality that Lau is trying to convey.
		Lau says the book is about "that moment when all those illusions are gone and you see the person that you've chosen and there he is, and you see the rest of your life stretching ahead interminably because of these choices that you've made."
		Lau was a teenager when she wrote "Runaway," but in contrast to the self-romanticizing work of most teen writers, Lau tells her story with the sort of sharp journalistic eye it often takes a writer a lifetime to develop.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/9900/issue8/entertainment/govgeneral.html (648 words)

	Feature Article
		Lau was convinced that "this time it was real." She was reassured by his willingness to be seen with her in public.
		Lau learned that she was being constantly compared, usually negatively, to previous wives and lovers; she felt that at 25 she was losing ground to the memories of a man whose history was more than twice as long as hers.
		Lau may not be as well known outside Canada, but Jerry Wasserman, professor of English and theatre at the University of B.C., says that does not mean her work is without significance.
	www.axionet.com /bcreport/web/980323f.html (2689 words)

	Evelyn Lau at the Brisbane Writers' Festival
		Born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971, Evelyn Lau is considered one of Canada's most talented writers, but her journey to acclaim has not been easy.
		As a result of her youthful achievements, Evelyn was awarded the Air Canada / Canadian Authors Association Award for the most promising writer under thirty.
		Evelyn's latest work, Choose Me, was published in 1999 by Doubleday and is a collection of six short stories and a novella.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /australia/elaufest-en.asp (288 words)

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		Lau says, "All the events that took place during these two years were easier on me emotionally than living at home, which is why I have never gone back there to live."
		Lau has been criticized a lot by the Chinese community for "presenting the Chinese community in a negative light" and for "reinforcing the idea that Chinese women are all "Suzy Wongs" in waiting." I don't understand this for a couple reasons.
		Basically, Lau's critics were saying to her: "you can't write that your parents were unkind to you - that makes all Chinese parents look bad.
	www.coolwomen.org /coolwomen/cwsite.nsf/f85b4e3889247adc8525645600629c11/1f13e01c95b6cfe3852565d2005c4055?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Evelyn (1123 words)

	letters 93-4
		Evelyn Lau’s picture on the cover of Oedipal Dreams is a stark white mask, heavily marked with eyeliner and lipstick in order to evoke the classic female face of Chinese opera.
		In the film made of Lau’s book it was another matter, for the demands of the visual medium meant that the ethnic identity of the protagonist and her family inevitably registered a certain kind of coded presence.
		Thus from many directions Lau is perceived as flouting or refusing the so--called ‘empowering’ categories with which critics are eager to provide her, rarely appearing in anthologies of Asian--Canadian writing and, by her own account, refusing to participate in ‘multicultural’ events (Lau 1994b).
	www.english.ubc.ca /~sgunew/lau.htm (4825 words)

	Evelyn Lau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although I had read about Evelyn Lau, author, poet and fiction writer, read her poetry, viewed the CBC docudrama entitled Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, a chronicle of her life of drugs and prostitution and her development into a published writer, I had never seen her in person.
		Rather a prim and proper garb for a woman whose claim to fame (besides her often sparkling poetry/ prose and being the youngest poet to ever be nominated for the Governors General 's Award) is that she was a child prostitute.
		But Lau will not beg for either forgiveness or understanding.Writing is the way she can distance herself from her life.
	hometown.aol.com /farolan1/lau.html (1296 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Books \| Treble, by Evelyn Lau
		If Evelyn Lauâs latest book of poetry were based on a musical score, its refrain would be familiar.
		This would seem to be âeverything we expect of Lauâ, to quote the back cover of the book, but there is also an elegance to her writing, an attention to the details of relationships, and definitely a lyrical precision.
		Lauâs writing is clearly powerful enough to say something, particularly when she lets the quieter moments surface.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=9674 (275 words)

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		The parents were obsessively ambitious on behalf of their children (there is a younger sister), demanding constant top performance at school tests and expecting their eldest daughter, Evelyn, to become a medical doctor.
		Six years after the publication of Runaway, Lau's memoir of her years as a suicidal teenage prostitute and drug addict, comes this now 23-year-old author's fiction debut: 10 grim and powerful short stories about women whose loveless lives are controlled by sex, from prostitution to sadomasochism.
		The author of three poetry collections (In the House of the Slaves), Lau employs sensuously described images and melodic prose to soften the brutal, very realistic encounters she describes in these poignant stories, which speak eloquently of loneliness, rage, despair and other raw emotions.
	www.jahsonic.com /EvelynLau.html (308 words)

	ASIA'ZINE: Book Review - Other Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For those of you unfamiliar with this work, Runaway is an autobiographical diary account of Lau's oppressive Asian upbringing, her subsequent running away from home, and her life on the streets of Vancouver as a prostitute.
		It is clear that Lau draws from her past to delve into Fiona's pain and isolation.
		Evelyn Lau's stark narrative vividly captures the desperation and frustration that Fiona experiences.
	www.asiazine.com /books/bks01041.htm (238 words)

	Review - Choose Me by Evelyn Lau
		Evelyn Lau dedicated her last book, the novel Other Women, to John Updike with whom she admitted in reviews to being "half in love with." The desire was at least partly stylistic.
		It's a fault that befalls many writers known as much for their rhetorical skill as for the substance of their writing (Updike is one).
		Lau's writing career began with a bang with the release of Runaway, her diary from her days as a teenaged prostitute, which was quickly followed by the release of three volumes of poetry ranging from the gritty to the sharply polished.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/lau.html (309 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Runaway: Diary of a street kid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lau's journal, a best seller in her native Canada, is a brutally frank account of her life on the streets of Vancouver after running away from a traditional Chinese home at the age of 14.
		While the self-absorption of a depressed 14-year-old with adolescent ideas of grandiosity does get slightly repetitive, Lau's fervent devotion to her writing (throughout her ordeals she continued to keep her journal) and her naked desire to be loved strikes the reader with a touching poignancy.
		Evelyn's world view is set to critique all that crosses her path...including our correctional services, family services, and basic social acceptability.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006485871 (515 words)

	College Papers-Evelyn Lau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a result of little fatherly love, Evelyn began her search for lovers which she classified as the “father figure”, like those in the romance novels, “I always had this thing for older men...I look for father figures all the time...” (Details 2).
		As I read through Evelyn’s works, I have come to the conclusion that although she is able to pronounce her hatred she still has many skeletons in the closet.
		Evelyn had reason to feel suppressed by her parents, but as a rising star one mustn’t succumb to the idea that one’s past is fiction in one’s novel.
	www.college-papers.org /free_essays/english/evelyn-laumnn.html (725 words)

	Oedipal Dreams by Evelyn Lau from Gutter Press. Buy online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Evelyn Lau's writing has been published in over 10 countries, and Oedipal Dreams has been recognized as a landmark work in Canadian poetry.
		Evelyn Lau was short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Poetry at the age of 21, the youngest person ever nominated for the award.
		Lau's first book was the bestselling Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, which has been translated into a number of languages, as have her other books, including Fresh Girls, Other Women and Choose Me. Lau's poetry has appeared in many journals, as well as in Best American Poetry and the definitive Canadian anthology Breathing Fire.
	www.gutterpress.com /pages/oedipaldreams.html (208 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Evelyn Lau - Profile
		Evelyn Lau was born July 2, 1971 in Vancouver.
		Lau's poetry collections pursue the themes of Runaway, prostitution and the search for a caring father.
		Lau is currently working on a fourth collection of poetry.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/e_lau.htm (141 words)

	Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Authors - Evelyn Lau
		Evelyn Lau crashed into the spotlight at the age of eighteen with the publication in 1989 of her first book,Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, an autobiographical work that illuminated the world of teenage prostitution and drug abuse in Vancouver.
		It is also Lau’s most mature work of poetry by far, exploring relationships between men and women with depth, empathy and a sensitive precision that is breathtaking and new.
		Strong, intimate, disturbing and finally poignant, Evelyn Lau's poems are really about people, trapped and hurting behind their many masks of conformity.
	www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/lau.html (466 words)

	Roses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Evelyn Lau’s short story Roses is a strange and unsettling tale of sexual manipulation and abuse.
		In her short story Roses, Evelyn Lau describes the dynamics of a relationship in which there is a dramatic imbalance of power, showing how this can lead to severe abuse and various levels of dehumanization.
		Evelyn Lau does an amazing job at showing how a horrible, abusive relationship can evolve out of seemingly ordinary of circumstances.
	eths.sfsu.edu /aas214s2004/Roses.html (743 words)

	Right Brain - #8 Feb/Mar 94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lau is not concerned with showing her characters' past, but with their loathsome now, the now where inflicted pain is the only antidote to time and aging.
		Runaway is Lau's observant, powerful record of her first two years' journey through suicide attempts, psychosis, drugs, prostitution, and wise psychiatric counseling after she ran away at age 14 from her emotionally abusive, domineering mother and withdrawn father.
		Lau, in fleeing her family, was looking for the emotional space to pursue her writing gift.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /08/NW_Books.html (688 words)

	Interview \| Evelyn Lau
		And I'm a little sad about that: Evelyn Lau has a wonderful smile.
		Now 28, Lau is the author of seven book-length works.
		Evelyn Lau: My agent was actually the one that came up with the title.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/lau.html (2472 words)

	NOW : Culture : Lau and libel : Mar 22 - 28, 2001
		The force of her will to express herself is so huge, it jumps off the page in the raw and uncompromising prose of someone obviously loaded with talent.
		Lau has no problem letting readers inside her head even at her worst times, and her writing is so precise and taut that you are literally pulled into the greyness with her.
		And all Lau can offer about her experience is that she got into lawyers for a little while and worried a bit about what to write next.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-03-22/books_reviews2.html (412 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99202990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Though they long to be chosen, the women in Lau's stories are drawn to men they can't have, men whose allure fades the more available they become.
		With a precise eye and a deft touch, Lau explores the ambiguous motives that propel her characters into emotional and sexual entanglements.
		Lau's use of language is controlled, and her images sensuously described.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random041/99202990.html (227 words)

	Postfeminist Poetry: Evelyn Lau's Oedipal Dreams (Story of My Youngest Sister)
		Lau's poem, "Father," must have captured something for M about her feelings for our father, the one who left before she spoke in full sentences, the one she grew up with as absent.
		Evelyn Lau was a runaway, is a self-taught award-winning poet.
		These are books filled with feminist images, distinguishable from Lau's work of ashes and self-sacrificial blood letting, which might be termed "postfeminist" according to the paradigm set up by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt in "Feminism, 'Postfeminism,' and Contemporary Women's Fiction" (1991).
	www.womenwriters.net /editorials/mlj0100.htm (1108 words)

	Shaping A Life Fall 1997 Speaker Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lau was born in Vancouver, British Colombia in 1971.
		Evelyn Lau has won numerous literary awards, including the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award for her first collection, You Are Not Who You Claim.
		Lau is also the author of the highly acclaimed collection of short stories, Fresh Girls and Other Stories.
	complit.rutgers.edu /swarner/sal/bios.html (1553 words)

	18/09/95 -- Arts: Review of Other Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the record, Evelyn Lau is a very talented writer.
		If it were possible to see a before and after photo, or witness her gradual decline into despair and misery, the book would strike on a deeper emotional level.
		Lau attempts the latter in her even numbered chapters which are written from Fiona to Raymond.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/95-3/issue3/elau.html (469 words)

	The Bukowski Agency - Choose Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a major step forward in her career, Evelyn Lau has written a collection of stories about the choices contemporary young women make in love - and about the choices they expect their beloved to make.
		Using a large cast of characters and a wide variety of settings, she explores the subtlety of desire that is most often emotional and psychological rather than sexual.
		Ten years after publishing her bestselling memoir Runaway, Evelyn Lau has produced a collection of personal essays exploring some of the issues that have overtaken her since then: bulimia, depression, desire, multiculturalism, the importance of home, and the ramifications of becoming entangled in the legal system.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /ChooseMe.htm (216 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: In the House Of Slaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lau (Oedipal Dreams), a Governor General's Award nominee, bows in here with a slim and anti-climactic gathering of poetry and prose poems.
		Evelyn Lau is a Canadian genius and her poetry is so truthful and wrapped with pain.
		She does not hate men Lau is heterosexual for the record.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1896356265 (348 words)

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