Timothy Mo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Timothy Mo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Timothy Peter Mo 30 December 1950 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British-Chinese |
| Period | 1978–present |
| Genres | fiction |
Timothy Peter Mo (毛翔青) (born 30 December 1950,[1]) 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, when he moved to Britain. Educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.[2]
He self-publishes his books under the label "Paddleless Press".[3]
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)
- Pure (2012)
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
References
- ↑ According to "Timothy Mo" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, (16 June 2004 update), some sources give his year of birth as 1953
- ↑ Nick Rennison (2005). Contemporary British novelists. Routledge. pp. 101–3. ISBN 978-0-415-21709-5. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Books by ISBN Paddleless Press
External links
- Timothy Mo at British Council: Literature
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.