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 (六人晚餐) has been translated into English, German, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[3] It has also been adapted into a 2017 film Youth Dinner.

She was the featured author of the journal Chinese Literature Today in 2021.[4]

Works translated to English

YearChinese titleTranslated English titleTranslator(s)
2010此情无法投递This Love Could Not Be Delivered[5]
2011暗疾"Hidden Diseases"[6]Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
2012西天寺"Paradise Temple"[7]Brendan O'Kane
谢伯茂之死"Xie Bomao R.I.P."[8]Helen Wang
20151980年的二胎"A Second Pregnancy, 1980"[9]
2018大宴"The Banquet"[10]Michael Day
2018徐记鸭往事"The Past of Xu's Duck"[11]Jeremy Tiang
2019风月剪"Scissors, Shining"[12]Michael Day
2020离歌"Song of Parting"[13]
2022六人晚餐"Dinner for Six"[14]Nicky Harman and Helen Wang

References

  1. ↑ "Lu Min". china.org.cn. 2013-08-29.
  2. ↑ Zhang Li. "A Sinophone "20 under 40" — 5. Lu Min (China)". Asymptote. Translated by Yu Yan Chen.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Chinese Literature Today, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2020). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uclt20/current Accessed 25 Jun 2021.
  5. ↑ Lu Min (2016). This Love Could Not Be Delivered. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-7504-3.
  6. ↑ Pathlight, Summer 2012
  7. ↑ Chutzpah!: New Voices from China. University of Oklahoma Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8061-4870-0.
  8. ↑ Read Paper Republic, 29 October 2015
  9. ↑ Read Paper Republic, 3 November 2015
  10. ↑ Lu Min (2018). Lu Min: A Bilingual Library of Contemporary Chinese Master Writers. Nanjing Normal University Press. ISBN 978-7-5651-3582-8.
  11. ↑ Lu Min (2018). Lu Min: A Bilingual Library of Contemporary Chinese Master Writers. Nanjing Normal University Press. ISBN 978-7-5651-3582-8.
  12. ↑ Words Without Borders, June-July 2019
  13. ↑ Massachusetts Review, Fall 2020
  14. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63834502-dinner-for-six


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