Editing Timothy Mo

{{Short description|British Asian novelist}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
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'''Timothy Peter Mo''' (born 30{{nbsp}}December 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 people|British]] mother and a [[Hong Kong people|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">{{cite book|author=Nick Rennison|title=Contemporary British novelists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1g3d69mwd4C&pg=PA101|year=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-21709-5|pages=101–3}}</ref>

His works have won the [[Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize]], the [[Hawthornden Prize]], and the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize|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 Daily Telegraph|''The Telegraph'']]'s list of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.<ref>{{Cite web|title=10 best Asian novels of all time|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10630332/10-best-Asian-novels-of-all-time.html|date=22 April 2014|access-date=2020-12-06|website=The Telegraph|language=en-GB}}</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-publishing|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). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-books-interview-timothy-mo-postcards-from-the-edge-1105400.html "Timothy Mo - Postcards from the edge"]. ''[[The Independent]]''. Retrieved 27 November 2015.</ref><ref>Foran, Charles (22 June 2012). [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-the-mysterious-timothy-mo/article4364456/ "The rise and fall, and rise again, of the mysterious Timothy Mo"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. Retrieved 27 November 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.books-by-isbn.com/0-9524193/ Books by ISBN Paddleless Press]</ref>

== Background ==
Mo has been described as a [[British Asian]] author.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tamara S. Wagner|editor1=Neil Murphy|editor2=Wai-Chew Sim|title=British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary|date=2008|publisher=[[Cambria Press]]|chapter=Gorged-out Cadavers of Hills|isbn=978-1604975413|page=165|quote=British Asian authors like Timothy Mo or [[Kazuo Ishiguro]].}}</ref>

== Novels ==

*''[[The Monkey King (Mo novel)|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 (Mo novel)|Pure]]'' (2012)

==Awards==
* 1979: [[Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize]] for ''The Monkey King''<ref name="BritCounLit">{{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timothy-mo|title=Timothy Mo British Council Literature|work=[[British Council]]|publisher=British Council|accessdate=14 January 2016}}</ref>
* 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Forster|title=American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters|accessdate=9 July 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106111558/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Forster|archivedate=6 November 2011}}</ref>
* 1999: [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize|James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)]] for ''Renegade or Halo2''<ref name="BritCounLit"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{British council|id=timothy-mo|name=Timothy Mo}}

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