舒明有介紹文115~117和訪問稿 118~127
許國衡有《勇氣的徒勞》摘譯：屠城 128~151
鄭樹森編《國際文壇十二家》臺北：聯合文學，1992
Timothy Mo
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| Born | Timothy Peter Mo 30 December 1950 | ||
| Occupation | Novelist | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Period | 1978–present | ||
| Genre | fiction | ||
| Chinese name | |||
| Chinese | 毛翔青[1] | ||
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Timothy Peter Mo (born 30 December 1950[2]) is a British novelist. Born to a British mother and a Hong Kong father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10, when he moved to Britain. Educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, Mo worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist.[3]
His works have won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), and three of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.[4] Mo was also the recipient of the 1992 E. M. Forster Award.[5]
In the early 1990s Mo became increasingly mistrustful of his publishers and increasingly outspoken about the publishing industry in general. Since 1994 when he rejected a £125,000 advance from Random House for his next novel, he has self-published his books under the label "Paddleless Press". His first novel to be self-published was Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard.[6][7][8]
Contents
Novels[edit]
- The Monkey King (1978)
- Sour Sweet (1982), filmed as Soursweet in 1988
- An Insular Possession (1986)
- The Redundancy of Courage (1991)
- Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995)
- Renegade or Halo2 (2000)
- Pure (2012)
"一個人一個故事：消失12年 Timothy Mo新作面世". Apple Daily. 19 December 2011.
一個人一個故事：
消失12年 TimothyMo新作面世
毛翔青（圖）是半個香港人，但在香港並不出名。說出TimothyMo，看英文小說的人才知道。他1980年代崛起文壇，常被跟IanMcEwan等名家相提並論。偏偏他銷聲匿迹12年，至今才再有新作面世。
年屆花甲依然有火，他向來不喜歡記者，接受記者電郵訪問也毫不客氣：「我無心衝撞，但我不喜歡你的問題。」一句話盡顯火爆的傲慢才情。
毛翔青父親是香港人，10歲隨英國人母親離開香港，赴英居住，在牛津受教育。作品寫文化衝突、流離和認同，處女作《猴王》（Monkey King）1979年獲GeoffreyFaber紀念獎，之後三作都打入布克獎決選名單。1995年他跟出版界巨頭Random House鬧翻，離開英國跑回東南亞，「要接觸不同的人和體驗各種奇異」。最近三年，除香港，他在印尼和斯里蘭卡住過，目擊「殘暴與腐敗政客作威作福」，明春出版的《Pure》，就以泰南回教分離主義鬥爭為背景。
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