Lu Min (鲁敏, born 1973) is a Chinese fiction writer based in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

. She won the 5th

Lu Xun Literary Prize The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years since 19 ...

, among many other awards. Lu Min was born in

Dongtai Dongtai () is a coastal county-level city under the administration of Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China. It has a population of roughly 1,170,000 estimated for 2007. Out of the total population, about 260,000 live in the Dongtai urban core, others ...

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 Tong Zhonggui (; born January 23, 1963), known by the pen name of Su Tong () is a Chinese writer. He was born in Suzhou and lives in Nanjing. He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish nov ...

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 translated into English, German, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. It has also been adapted into a 2017 film ''

Youth Dinner ''Youth Dinner'' is a 2017 Chinese youth romance film based on the novel ''Six People's Dinner'' by Lu Min. It stars Shawn Dou, Janine Chang, Wu Gang and Vivian Wu. The film was released in China on June 16, 2017. Synopsis Set during the 1990s i ...

''. She was the featured author of the journal ''Chinese Literature Today'' in 2021.''Chinese Literature Today'', Volume 9, Issue 2 (2020). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uclt20/current Accessed 25 Jun 2021.

Works translated to English

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1973 births People from Dongtai Writers from Yancheng Living people Chinese women novelists Chinese women short story writers People's Republic of China novelists 21st-century Chinese short story writers Short story writers from Jiangsu {{China-writer-stub