Эвелин Лау: Канадтық ақын және жазушы

Canadian poet and novelist

Evelyn Lau (; born July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 2, 1971, to Chinese Canadian parents from Hong Kong. Lau attended Templeton Secondary School in Vancouver. Her work in magazines has won four Western Magazine Awards and a National Magazine Award; she also received the Air Canada Award, the Vantage Women of Originality Award, the ACWW Community Builders Award, and the Mayor's Arts Award for Literary Arts. Her poems were selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry (1992) and Best Canadian Poetry (2009, 2010, 2011, 2016). Lau has also worked as writer in residence at the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen University, and Vancouver Community College, and was Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Calgary. Lau lives in Vancouver, where she is a manuscript consultant in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program. On Oct. 14, 2011, Lau was named the poet laureate for the city of Vancouver. She is the third poet to hold this honorary position; her plan is to offer 'poet in residence consultations with aspiring poets'. As of fall 2023, Lau is the writer in residence at Langara College in Vancouver, BC.

Fresh Girls and Other Stories. (HarperCollins, 1993) (shortlisted for the QPB Award for Notable New Fiction. Translated into German, Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Italian, Hungarian)
in German, transl. Angela Stein: Fetisch & andere Stories. Goldmann, Munich 1996
Choose Me. (Doubleday, 1999) (translated into Japanese, Swedish)

Other Women. (Random House, 1995) (translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese, Greek, Hebrew, Polish)
in German, transl. Birgit Moosmüller: Die Frau an seiner Tür. Goldmann, Munich 1996