Education

Street John"s College.

Career

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 Street John"s College, Oxford, Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist. Mo was also the recipient of the M.

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.

Achievements

• 1979 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Monkey King 1982 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for Sour Sweet 1982 Hawthornden Prize for Sour Sweet 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for An Insular Possession 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for The Redundancy of Courage 1992 E. M. Forster Award 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) for Renegade or Halo2.

Works

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  • The Redundancy of Courage

    (An Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a...)

  • The Monkey King

    (The Poons, according to gossip in post-war Hong Kong, hav...)

  • An Insular Possession
  • Sour Sweet by author of An Insular Possession
  • Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard
  • Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard by Timothy Mo (1997-04-08)
  • The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo (2002-01-07)
  • An Insular Possession (No. 35)