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.
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.[1] 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".[2]
Lu Min's 2012 novel Dinner for Six (Chinese: 六人晚餐) has been translated into English, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.
| Year | Chinese title | Translated English title | Translator(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 此情无法投递 | This Love Could Not Be Delivered[6] | ||
| 2011 | 暗疾 | "Hidden Diseases"[7] | Annelise Finegan Wasmoen | |
| 2012 | 西天寺 | "Paradise Temple"[8] | Brendan O'Kane | |
| 谢伯茂之死 | "Xie Bomao R.I.P."[9] | Helen Wang | ||
| 2015 | 1980年的二胎 | "A Second Pregnancy, 1980"[10] | ||
| 2018 | 大宴 | "The Banquet"[11] | Michael Day | |
| 2018 | 徐记鸭往事 | "The Past of Xu's Duck"[12] | Jeremy Tiang | |
| 2019 | 风月剪 | "Scissors, Shining"[13] | Michael Day | |
| 2020 | 离歌 | "Song of Parting"[14] | ||
| 2022 | 六人晚餐 | "Dinner for Six"[15] | Nicky Harman and Helen Wang |