Hawthornden Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 46 (1982) Winner
Timothy Mo
ティモシー・モー
Timoshī Mō
Aliases:
Timothy Peter Mo
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1950-12-30 （Hong Kong）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Hong Kong (until age 10) → United Kingdom
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Journalist
- Active Years
- 1978-2024
- Nominations
- 1982 Booker Prize shortlist (Sour Sweet), 1986 Booker Prize shortlist (An Insular Possession), 1991 Booker Prize shortlist (The Redundancy of Courage)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| St John's College, Oxford | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Mill Hill School
Country:
United Kingdom
Independent school
St John's College, Oxford
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | The Monkey King | — | Faber & Faber | winner |
| 1982 | Hawthornden Prize | Sour Sweet | — | — | winner |
| 1999 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) | Renegade or Halo² | — | — | winner |
| 1992 | E. M. Forster Award | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | winner |
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1979
Work:
The Monkey King
Organization:
Faber & Faber
Result:
winner
Hawthornden Prize
1982
Work:
Sour Sweet
Result:
winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)
1999
Work:
Renegade or Halo²
Result:
winner
E. M. Forster Award
1992
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 81 (1999) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Monkey King
1978 FictionSour Sweet
1982 FictionAdaptations
- [Film] Soursweet (1988)
An Insular Possession
1986 FictionThe Redundancy of Courage
1991 FictionBrownout on Breadfruit Boulevard
1995 FictionRenegade or Halo²
2000 FictionPure
2012 FictionBibliography
- The Monkey King
- Sour Sweet
- An Insular Possession
- The Redundancy of Courage
- Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard
- Renegade or Halo²
- Pure
Legacy
British Asian novelist known for winning several prizes including three Booker shortlists and self-publishing since the 1990s.
In Popular Culture
- An Insular Possession listed in The Telegraph's 10 all-time greatest Asian novels
Trivia
- Chinese name: 毛翔青 (Máo Xiángqīng).
- Self-publishes under Paddleless Press since 1994.
- Some sources list birth year as 1953.