Timothy Mo

Timothy Peter Mo (born 30 December 1950, Hong Kong) is a British Asian novelist of mixed British and Chinese heritage who lived in Hong Kong until age 10 before moving to Britain, where he was educated at Oxford. His notable works include The Monkey King (1978), Sour Sweet (1982), An Insular Possession (1986), and The Redundancy of Courage (1991), three of which were Booker Prize shortlists, and he has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Hawthornden Prize, and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Since 1994, he has self-published under Paddleless Press after rejecting a major advance.