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Timothy Mo


China (b.1950)

Timothy Mo was born in Hong Kong in 1950 to a Cantonese father and an English mother. He was educated in Hong Kong and England. After graduating from St John's College, Oxford, he worked as a journalist for the New Statesman and Boxing News. With Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo emerged in the 1980s as one of the most important novelists writing about bi-cultural diversity, reflecting both his Anglo-Chinese background and his concerns for the effects of imperialism and colonial rule in South-East Asia.
 
 
Novels
   The Monkey King (1978)
   Sour Sweet (1982)
   An Insular Possession (1986)
   The Redundancy of Courage (1991)
   Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995)
   Renegade or Halo 2 (1999)
   Pure (2012)
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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1982) : Sour Sweet
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1986) : An Insular Possession
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1991) : The Redundancy of Courage
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1999) : Renegade or Halo 2


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