Occupation Novelist Name Timothy Mo Genre fiction Movies Soursweet | Period 1978–present Education University of Oxford Nationality British Role Novelist Nominations Man Booker Prize | |
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Born Timothy Peter Mo 30 December 1950 (age 73) ( 1950-12-30 ) Books Sour Sweet, An Insular Possession, The Redundancy of Courage, The Monkey King, Brownout on Breadfruit Similar People Sam Selvon, Hanif Kureishi, Mike Newell, Ian McEwan | ||
Timothy Peter Mo (born 30 December 1950) is a British 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.
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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 novel were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Mo was also the recipient of the 1992 E. M. Forster Award.
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.