Tibor Fischer

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.

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British - Novelist - 1993 - Granta

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Although he was born in Stockport, UK on November 15, 1959, Tibor Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, having fled Hungary in 1956.

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Stockport - UK - November 15 - 1959 - Hungary - 1956

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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'.

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Under the Frog - Rabelaisian - Communism

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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.

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The Thought Gang - The Collector Collector - South London

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Fischer has also published two books of short stories, Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid, and '.

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Fischer's most recent novel, Voyage to the End of the Room was published in 2003.

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Voyage to the End of the Room - 2003

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