Timothy Mo

Elaine Ho (University of Hong Kong)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 30 Dec 1950
Activity 1982-ongoing

Places

Born in Hong Kong
Active in United Kingdom

Cultural Identities

British Asian

Activities

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Novelist

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Born in 1950 of a Cantonese-Chinese father and Welsh-Yorkshire mother, Timothy Mo spent his first nine years in Hong Kong where he attended first the Convent of the Precious Blood, a local Chinese medium school run by Cantonese nuns, and then Quarry Bay international school where the medium of instruction is English. At the age of ten he left for England and, after completing his secondary education at Mill Hill School, went on to read History at Oxford. On graduation Mo worked for various publications, including

The Times Literary Supplement

and

The New Statesman

, before starting a more permanent job as a writer for

Boxing News

. His literary career began to take shape with the publication, in 1978, of his first novel,

The Monkey King

, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His…

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Citation: Ho, Elaine. "Timothy Mo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3144, accessed 23 November 2024.]