Lu Min (writer)

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.