Timothy Mo
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| Timothy Peter Mo | |
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| Born | 30 December 1950 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British-Chinese |
| Writing period | 1978 to present |
| Genres | fiction |
Timothy Peter Mo (毛翔青) (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, studying at St John's College, Oxford.
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.
[edit] External links
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