Timothy Peter Mo (born 30December 1950According to "Timothy Mo" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, (16 June 2004 update), some sources give his year of birth as 1953) is a British Asian novelist. Born to a British mother and a Hong Kong 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.
His works have won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), and three of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Mo was also the recipient of the 1992 E. M. Forster Award. His novel An Insular Possession (1986) was among the contenders in The Telegraph's list of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.
In the early 1990s Mo became increasingly mistrustful of his publishers and increasingly outspoken about the publishing industry in general. Since 1994 when he rejected a £125,000 advance from Random House for his next novel, he has self-published his books under the label "Paddleless Press". His first novel to be self-published was Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard.Tonkin, Boyd (22 October 2011). "Timothy Mo - Postcards from the edge". The Independent. Retrieved 27 November 2015.Foran, Charles (22 June 2012). "The rise and fall, and rise again, of the mysterious Timothy Mo". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 November 2015.Books by ISBN Paddleless Press
Background Mo has been described as a British Asian author.
Novels
The Monkey King (1978) Sour Sweet (1982), filmed as Soursweet in 1988 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
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