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Profile of Tibor Fischer
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Tibor Fischer |
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15th November 1959 |
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Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers.
Although he was born in Stockport, UK on November 15, 1959, Tibor Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, having fled Hungary in 1956.
The bloody events of that year in Hungary, and his father's background, informed Fischer's debut novel Under the Frog, a Rabelaisian yarn about a Hungarian basketball player surviving Communism. The title is derived from a Hungarian saying, that the worst possible place to be is 'under a frog's arse down a coal mine'.
Subsequent novels include The Thought Gang, about an unemployed and alcoholic philosophy professor who hooks up with a failed one-armed bandit in France to form a successful team of bank robbers, and The Collector Collector, about a weekend in South London, narrated by a 2,000 year old pot.
Fischer has also published two books of short stories, Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid, and I Like Being Killed: Stories.
Fischer's most recent novel, Voyage to the End of the Room was published in 2003.
External Links
- interview from 2004 at identitytheory
- interview about his novel The Collector Collector at beatrice
- tibor fischer at the Complete Review
- Tibor Fischer at www.contemporarywriters.com
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