Lu Min (writer)

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.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lu.

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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