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Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau's brilliant writing career has been studded with successes:
her explosively popular autobiography,
published to international acclaim when she was just 18; her Governor-General's
Award nomination at age 21,
making her the youngest person ever to be shortlisted for this prestigious
honour; her searing and arresting fiction,
Fresh Girls, Choose Me, and Other Women.
This prodigious and sensitive writer gives us a window into the lives
of the marginalized. Several of her books have been translated into a
dozen languages.
Her first book Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid was broadcast as a CBC-TV
"Movie of the Week", starring Sandra Oh in her first movie role.
Evelyn was named one of the most influential people in the arts by the
Globe & Mail, Vancouver Magazine and Vancouver Sun.
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