Timothy Peter Mo (1950-12-30) 30 December 1950 (age 73)
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
British
Period
1978–present
Genre
Fiction
Chinese name
Chinese
毛翔青[1]
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Máo Xiángqīng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Mòuh Chèuhngchīng
Jyutping
Mou4 Coeng4-ching1
Timothy Peter Mo (born 30December 1950[2]) 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.[3]
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.[4] Mo was also the recipient of the 1992 E. M. Forster Award.[5] His novel An Insular Possession (1986) was among the contenders in The Telegraph's list of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.[6]
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.[7][8][9]
^"一個人一個故事：消失12年 Timothy Mo新作面世". Apple Daily. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2015.[dead link]
^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.
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^"10 best Asian novels of all time". The Telegraph. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
^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.
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