Lu Min (writer)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lu.

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, 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.

Works translated to English

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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

References

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  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. ^ https://confucius.leeds.ac.uk/news/celebrated-chinese-author-lu-min-begins-uk-residency-in-leeds/ Accessed 16 March 2024.
  6. ^ Lu Min (2016). This Love Could Not Be Delivered. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-7504-3.
  7. ^ Pathlight, Summer 2012
  8. ^ Chutzpah!: New Voices from China. University of Oklahoma Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8061-4870-0.
  9. ^ Read Paper Republic, 29 October 2015
  10. ^ Read Paper Republic, 3 November 2015
  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. ^ Lu Min (2018). Lu Min: A Bilingual Library of Contemporary Chinese Master Writers. Nanjing Normal University Press. ISBN 978-7-5651-3582-8.
  13. ^ Words Without Borders, June-July 2019
  14. ^ Massachusetts Review, Fall 2020
  15. ^ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63834502-dinner-for-six


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