Lau Siew Mei
Lau Siew Mei was born in Singapore in 1968 and migrated to Australia in 1994. She is now based in Brisbane, Queensland. Her first novel Playing Madame Mao was published in 2000 and her short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service and published in literary journals in Australia, USA, Canada and the UK. Playing Madame Mao was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in this year's NSW Premier's Literary Awards and has been picked up by publishers in the UK and Greece where it will be translated. She was invited to appear at the inaugural Hong Kong writers festival 2001. During her 2001 Asialink residency in Malaysia, Lau researched Malaysia's traditional Peranakan culture, a unique mix of Malay and Chinese cultures for her second novel.
Playing Madame Mao. Rose Bay, NSW: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2000.
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