# Timothy Mo
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{{Short description|Hong Kong-born British novelist (born 1950)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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|birth_name = Timothy Peter Mo
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|occupation = Novelist
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|period = 1978–present
|genre = Fiction
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'''Timothy Peter Mo''' (born 30{{nbsp}}December 1950[According 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](/source/British_people) mother and a [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong_people) father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10, when he moved to Britain. Educated at [Mill Hill School](/source/Mill_Hill_School) and [St John's College, Oxford](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford), Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.[{{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}}]
His works have won the [Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize](/source/Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize), the [Hawthornden Prize](/source/Hawthornden_Prize), and the [James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)](/source/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize), and three of his novels were shortlisted for the [Booker Prize for Fiction](/source/Booker_Prize_for_Fiction).[{{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}}]
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](/source/Random_House) for his next novel, he has [self-published](/source/self-publishing) his books under the label "Paddleless Press". His first novel to be self-published was ''Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard''.[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](/source/The_Independent)''. Retrieved 27 November 2015.][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](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)''. Retrieved 27 November 2015.][[http://www.books-by-isbn.com/0-9524193/ Books by ISBN Paddleless Press]]
== Background ==
Mo has been described as a [British Asian](/source/British_Asian) author.[{{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](/source/Cambria_Press)|chapter=Gorged-out Cadavers of Hills|isbn=978-1604975413|page=165|quote=British Asian authors like Timothy Mo or [Kazuo Ishiguro](/source/Kazuo_Ishiguro).}}]
== Novels ==
*''[The Monkey King](/source/The_Monkey_King_(Mo_novel))'' (1978)
*''[Sour Sweet](/source/Sour_Sweet)'' (1982), filmed as ''[Soursweet](/source/Soursweet)'' in 1988
*''[An Insular Possession](/source/An_Insular_Possession)'' (1986)
*''[The Redundancy of Courage](/source/The_Redundancy_of_Courage)'' (1991)
*''[Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard](/source/Brownout_on_Breadfruit_Boulevard)'' (1995)
*''[Renegade or Halo2](/source/Renegade_or_Halo2)'' (2000)
*''[Pure](/source/Pure_(Mo_novel))'' (2012)
==Awards==
* 1979: [Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize](/source/Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize) for ''The Monkey King''[{{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timothy-mo|title=Timothy Mo British Council Literature|work=[British Council](/source/British_Council)|publisher=British Council|accessdate=14 January 2016}}]
* 1982: [Booker Prize for Fiction](/source/Booker_Prize_for_Fiction) (shortlist) for ''Sour Sweet''[{{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}}]
* 1999: [James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)](/source/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize) for ''Renegade or Halo2''