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Tymo Lin
BornTaipei, Taiwan
Pen nameTymo Lin(Chinese: 提子墨)
OccupationNovelist & Columnist
LanguageTraditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English
NationalityCanadian / Taiwanese
Education-Vancouver Film School / 3D Animation & Visual Effects -Pitman College / Desktop Publishing & Microsoft Interface study
Period2006-present
GenresMystery fiction, crime fiction, Travel essays, Column, Reportage
Notable awardsThe 4th Soji Shimada Mystery Awards finalist (2015)

Tymo Lin (Chinese: 提子墨; pinyin: Tí Zimò), novelist, columnist and book critic, Lin is an author member of the Crime Writers' Association (UK), P. A. member of the Crime Writers of Canada, and director of the Mystery Writers of Taiwan.  He was a finalist in The 4th Soji Shimada Mystery Awards for 2015, a mystery critic for books.com.tw, columnist for ETtoday (Taiwan), Distinctive Taste magazine[1] (San Francisco), World Journal Weekly (New York) and The Mess-Age (Taiwan).

Lin was born in Taipei, currently living in Canada, and graduated from The Vancouver Film School - 3D Animation & Visual Effects.  He was a columnist for nine years in North America and has frequently been giving lectures about mystery writing to readers in Taiwan and the USA.

Biography

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His award winning mystery novel, The Thermosphere Murders, is about two American astronauts' murder cases and the abnormal explosion of a Russian spacecraft returning from the imaginary space station, "The Universal Space Station".  This unique new type of mystery was selected to be one of the top 3 finalists in "The 4th Soji Shimada Mystery Awards" and is currently in circulation at the San Francisco Public Library.

Lin became a full time novelist after receiving the mystery award, his 2016 novel, The Palace of Firebirds, is published by Showwe.  It is a mystery and a love story spanning half a century.  From the modern computer age back to those years when thousands ofUS Armed Forces from the Vietnam War were taking R&R in Taiwan.

He also co-translated one of the Mystery Writers of America's books, Writing Mysteries, into the Chinese language published by Marco Polo Press in 2018. One of Lin's novels, Wake Me Up at Happyland, has been nominated by the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan) to be included in the Taiwan pavilion at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.

Awards and honours

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The 4th Soji Shimada Mystery Awards (finalist)

The 10th Mystery Writers of Taiwan Awards (first stage nomination)

Publications

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Mystery Novels

Translation

Travel Book

Short Stories

Speech

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USA

2016 Mystery Novels of Taiwan Promotion

2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour

Taiwan

Radio Interview

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USA

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References

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  • ^ "2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour - San Francisco, California". YouTube. 2017-06-10.
  • ^ "2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour - San Jose, California". YouTube. 2017-06-10.
  • ^ "2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour - South Bay Area, California". YouTube. 2017-06-11.
  • ^ "2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour - Dallas, Texas". YouTube. 2017-06-17.
  • ^ "2017 Showwe Writers' North American Tour - Houston, Texas". YouTube. 2017-06-18.
  • ^ "The Impossible Crime, with Xerxes". YouTube. 2015-10-03.
  • ^ "The Writing Schemes for a Novel, with Amanda Chi". YouTube. 2016-07-16.
  • ^ "One for All and All for One, with Sc Chang and Chihwen Hsiung". YouTube. 2016-07-31.
  • ^ "Tracing The Sun Vs. Life in Silicon Valley, with TienLo Liang". YouTube. 2017-02-10.
  • ^ "UMA, UFO and Outer Space". YouTube. 2017-02-10.
  • ^ "UMA, UFO and Outer Space, with Dr. Ho-Ling Fu". YouTube. 2017-02-12.
  • ^ "How Do I Promote Taiwan's Mystery Novels". 2017-10-21.
  • ^ "One for All and All for One II". YouTube. 2019-02-10.
  • ^ "FM 92.3 The Universal FM, interviewed by Erin Liu". YouTube. 2017-03-20.
  • ^ "FM 96.1 Sing Tao Chinese Radio, interviewed by Joron Lin". YouTube. 2017-06-10.
  • ^ "FM 96.1 Sing Tao Chinese Radio, interviewed by Joron Lin". YouTube. 2017-06-09.
  • ^ "Tymo Lin Official".
  • ^ "The Crime Writers' Association (UK)".
  • ^ "The Crime Writers of Canada - Tymo Lin".
  • ^ "The Mystery Writers of Taiwan - Tymo Lin".

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tymo_Lin&oldid=1043262372"

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