Lu Min is an award-winning Chinese novelist, best known for such works as Dinner for Six, This Love Could Not Be Delivered and The Man Who Could Not Die, which have been translated into a dozen languages, bringing her perceptive eye and an authentic Chinese perspective to readers around the world.

Born in the countryside of Jiangsu Province, she cycled through jobs as a post office clerk, journalist, accountant, and secretary from the age of 17, only later realizing — through quiet moments spent observing the lives of others—that writing was her true calling.

Speaking with Paris Calling from the eastern city of Nanjing that she now calls hom, Lu traces how her writing journey has unfolded alongside China’s modernization since the 1970s, and explores what the “impossibility of dying” means in today’s rapidly evolving AI era.

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