Timothy Mo
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Timothy Peter Mo (born 30Template:NbspDecember 1950<ref>According to "Timothy Mo" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, (16 June 2004 update), some sources give his year of birth as 1953</ref>) 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.<ref name="Rennison2005">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name="BritCounLit"/> Mo was also the recipient of the 1992 E. M. Forster Award.<ref name="AmerAcad"/> His novel An Insular Possession (1986) was among the contenders in The Telegraph's list of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>Tonkin, Boyd (22 October 2011). "Timothy Mo - Postcards from the edge". The Independent. Retrieved 27 November 2015.</ref><ref>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.</ref><ref>Books by ISBN Paddleless Press</ref>
BackgroundEdit
Mo has been described as a British Asian author.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
NovelsEdit
- 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)
AwardsEdit
- 1979: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Monkey King<ref name="BritCounLit">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1982: Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for Sour Sweet<ref name="BritCounLit"/>
- 1982: Hawthornden Prize for Sour Sweet<ref name="BritCounLit"/>
- 1986: Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for An Insular Possession<ref name="BritCounLit"/>
- 1991: Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for The Redundancy of Courage<ref name="BritCounLit"/>
- 1992: E. M. Forster Award<ref name="AmerAcad">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1999: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) for Renegade or Halo2<ref name="BritCounLit"/>