Lu Min (writer)


Lu Min 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. 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 adapted into a 2017 film Youth Dinner.

Works translated to English