Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischeris 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 and his novel Under the Frog featured on the Booker Prize shortlist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 November 1959
accused labelled obvious timid
You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
access life parallel truly unless
Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.
involves prolific
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
home stay tend travelling work writers
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.
directors hungarian
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
agency andrew fresh hankering ways
Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
assumed eastern knew
Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.
hungarian
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
both fascism known wants
Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
again book bored reasons
One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.
doors people bells
The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.
effort may danger
The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
men doors order
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.