The sound of the 70's disco and rock and of 80's.Music plays the utmost important role in my life to being able writing books. Without music, I can't go on ... So I listen to music but also does music on my own, but presently nothing officially. I play the piano and I sing, oh how I love to sing, Funk, blues, jazz and rock!!!! I am pretty sure that sooner or later I will get my own CD out, with a sexy housefunk beat sound. That would be my dream
LOLA EVANS, who is a writer, photographer and illustrator, was born in Munich, Bavaria, South-Germany on August 29th 1978. She presently lives partly in Munich and London, and lovingly calls London as her “literal and artistic hometown”, as there her career in photography and literature started. Lola loves to see herself meanwhile as a “BB”, what should mean Bavarian-British or even more as a ”Londoner with Bavarian roots” and most of all as a cosmopolitan, due to her Austrian and Hungarian roots. When Lola was two years old, her parents wanted to move to Vancouver, Canada, but in the end stayed in Munich.
At the age of sixteen, Lola started writing and she worked fourteen hard years to achieve her life’s dream of becoming one day a professional writer. After many ups and downs she finally succeeded in her dream and proved that it’s possible to make a dream come true, in which she nevertheless only succeeded as she was always determined about making her dream come true and also showed enough discipline, hard work, persistence and faith in herself.
Lola was nominated for the European Literary Award 2003 and also in 2004 for up-and-coming-writers. She also became an Honorary Member of the WWA (World Writers Association, London) and received a scholarship for a creative writing study at the Cornelia-Goethe-Academy in Frankfurt, Germany, an honour bestowed on promising new writers.
After the international poetry competition in 2oo2 in which Lola participated and won, her poem was published in a famous German poem book which was then been published in Vienna, Washington, DC, Paris and Tokyo. Lola was honoured in 2005 with a publication of her already published poem “Childhood” in a European poem book of the best German poems of the 21st century.
After four hard years of research on the death penalty and personal contact with an innocent Afro-American prisoner in Texas for several years, Lola wrote her first English-written novel “Black Skin White Skin”, which should explain how innocent victims are confronted with the death penalty in the USA in an extremely unfair and often vile and racist way. Lola is a supportive member of Amnesty International and NCADP in Washington D.C. and works therefore as an “Ambassador” for the Prevention of the Death Penalty. Lola is also going to support Amnesty International U.K. with her book “Black Skin White Skin”.
Lola is also an active member for animal organizations such as WSPA and PETA.
Lola studied English at a German university and also speaks some French and Italian. Lola has also studied veterinary science at the Open University of Veterinary Science, London and holds a Bachelor of Animal Psychology and a Master of Veterinary Science. She was also given a scholarship for studying ethology at a Denmark university, but turned down the offer, as she wanted to concentrate fully on her art. Moreover, Lola has also written for several animal magazines articles about animal psychology, specialized in cats and dogs.
As every young woman’s dream, Lola also managed to gain some experience as a model, and also did some photo shoots with several fashion photographers of several model agencies in Germany. At the age of 19 she also did an internship as a photo editor and was also offered a job as a model booker in a renowned Munich model agency but turned down the offer, as soon she realized that her world is much more this of art, photography, literature and foreign languages. For some time Lola was also a dancer in an Irish dancing group in Munich called “The Emerald dancers” as she loves Ireland.
Lola is currently working on a new thriller novel and other projects such as two photography books “Lola goes to London” which comes out in September 2009 and “Lola’s Manhattan” which comes out in September 2010 and a children’s picture book called “Lou Lou – the cute sheep girl”
which comes out in May 2010. With this book she supports “Children with Cancer UK Organization” (formerly “Children with Leukaemia”) in London and thus also the sick children to become healthy again.
As coming from a Viennese artistic family from her father’s side, Lola, in her spare time, is also an enthusiastic singer. Above that, music is always her driving force when creating her own art. She actually wanted to study music, but as life often goes other ways, she now has become a passionate writer and photographer. We can surely be expecting a lot more from Lola in the future when it comes to art and literature…. and definitely music some day as well.
