Timothy Mo

Elaine Ho (University of Hong Kong)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 30 Dec 1950
Activity 1982-ongoing

Places

Born in Hong Kong
Active in United Kingdom

Cultural Identities

British Asian

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

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 …

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Citation: Ho, Elaine. "Timothy Mo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3144, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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