Timothy Mo

1950–

British novelist born in Hong Kong to a British mother and Hong Kong father. He moved to Britain aged ten, was educated at Mill Hill School and St John’s College, Oxford, and worked as a journalist. His first novel, The Monkey King, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Sour Sweet and An Insular Possession were both shortlisted for the Booker. Since 1994 he has published through his own imprint, Paddleless Press; Renegade or Halo2 won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Redundancy of Courage, set in a thinly fictionalised East Timor, was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Timothy Mo’s life

Works

• The Redundancy of Courage (1991)

Prizes

• The Redundancy of Courage — The Booker Prize 1991: Shortlist