Lu Min (鲁敏, born 1973) is a Chinese fiction writer based in Nanjing. She won the 5th Lu Xun Literary Prize, among many other awards.
Biography Lu Min was born in Dongtai to a teacher mother and an engineer father. She worked as a post office clerk, a secretary, a company planner, a reporter and a civil servant before her writing career. While working in a post office in 1993, she attended novelist Su Tong who came in to purchase a stamp, and "felt the spirit of literature in his presence and was so affected that she thought of resigning immediately to go home and write".
Lu Min's 2012 novel Dinner for Six () has been translated into English, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.Lu Min presents Dinner for Six, Publishers Weekly, 6 Jan 2023. Accessed 9 Jan 2023.https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/91251-lu-min-presents-dinner-for-six.html The title of the novel was inspired by Van Gogh's painting The Potato Eaters. It has also been adapted into a film Youth Dinner (2017).
She was the featured author of the journal Chinese Literature Today in 2021.Chinese Literature Today, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2020). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uclt20/current Accessed 25 Jun 2021.
In March 2024, Lu Min was invited to a 3-week long residency in the UK, hosted by the Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University. Her visit included events at the University of Leeds, the London Book Fair and the Oxford Literary Festival.https://confucius.leeds.ac.uk/news/celebrated-chinese-author-lu-min-begins-uk-residency-in-leeds/ Accessed 16 March 2024.
In May 2024, Lu Min was invited in Italy to present her translation into Italian language of Cena per sei (Dinner for six) at the Salone del libro in Turin. The visit included events at the Universities of Milan (Cattolica and Statale) and Rome (La Sapienza). The visit was hosted by the Confucius Institutes of Milan, Turin and Rome.
Works translated to English YearChinese titleTranslated English titleTranslator(s)2010此情无法投递This Love Could Not Be Delivered2011暗疾"Hidden Diseases"Pathlight, Summer 2012Annelise Finegan Wasmoen2012西天寺"Paradise Temple"Brendan O'Kane谢伯茂之死"Xie Bomao R.I.P."Read Paper Republic, 29 October 2015Helen Wang20151980年的二胎"A Second Pregnancy, 1980"Read Paper Republic, 3 November 20152018大宴"The Banquet"Michael Day2018徐记鸭往事"The Past of Xu's Duck"Jeremy Tiang2019风月剪"Scissors, Shining"Words Without Borders, June-July 2019Michael Day2020离歌"Song of Parting"Massachusetts Review, Fall 20202022六人晚餐"Dinner for Six"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63834502-dinner-for-sixNicky Harman and Helen Wang
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