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Tibor Fischer (born 15 November ) is a British novelist and short-story writer....
Tibor Fischer
British writer (born 1959)
Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959) is a British novelist and short-story writer.
In 1993, he was selected by the literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers, while his novel Under the Frog was featured on the Booker Prize shortlist.
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Early life
Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, who fled Hungary in 1956; first his father, György Fischer, and then his mother, the captain of the women's national basketball team. Tibor's father studied economics at Manchester University,[1] started work in the Hungarian section of the BBC, taking the name "George Fischer", and ended up as Radio Four's head of talks and documentaries.[2]
Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport, England, in 1959 and grew up in Bromley, Kent, where he attended the local comprehensive school.
He studied Latin and French at Peterhouse, Cambridge.[3]
Author
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