Timothy Mo
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Timothy Peter Mo (born December 30, 1950¹, Hong Kong) is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. Born to a Welsh-Yorkshire mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10 before he moved to Britain.
He has his own publishing house, "Paddleless Press" .
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[edit] Novels
- The Monkey King (1978)
- Sour Sweet (1982)
- An Insular Possession (1986)
- The Redundancy of Courage (1991)
- Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995)
- Renegade or Halo2 (2000)
[edit] Awards
- 1979 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Monkey King
- 1982 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for Sour Sweet
- 1982 Hawthornden Prize for Sour Sweet
- 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for An Insular Possession
- 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for The Redundancy of Courage
- 1992 E.M. Forster Award
- 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) for Renegade or Halo2
[edit] References
- ¹ According to "Timothy Mo" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, (6/16/2004 update), some sources give his year of birth as 1953.
