TIMOTHY MO


'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, studying at St John's College, Oxford.
He has his own publishing house, "Paddleless Press" .

Contents
Novels
Awards
References
External links
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)

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



★ ¹ According to "Timothy Mo" in ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Thomson Gale, (6/16/2004 update), some sources give his year of birth as 1953.

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