- Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer (born
November 15 ,1959 inStockport ,England ) is a Britishnovelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazineGranta as one of the 20 best young British writers.Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, having fled
Hungary in 1956. The bloody 1956 revolution, and his father's background, informed Fischer's debut novel "Under the Frog ", a Rabelaisian yarn about a Hungarian basketball player survivingCommunism . 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".In 1992, "Under the Frog" won a
Betty Trask Prize for literature, and was shortlisted for the prestigiousBooker prize .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 inSouth London , narrated by a 5000 year old Sumerian pot.Fischer has also published a book of short stories, "
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid " (published in the U.S. as "I Like Being Killed: Stories").Fischer's most recent novel, "
Voyage to the End of the Room " was published in 2003.His new novel, "Good to be God" was published by Alma Books on September 4, 2008.
Fischer is represented by Louise Greenberg Books Ltd.Fact|date=September 2008
External links
* [http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum140.php Interview from 2004] at identitytheory
* [http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/fischer/ Interview about his novel "The Collector Collector"] at beatrice
* [http://www.complete-review.com/authors/fischer.htm tibor fischer] at the Complete Review
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