Background
Fischer was born in Stockport, England on November 15, 1959, the son of George and Margaret (Fekete) Fischer.
(Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows ...)
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.
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1992
(In this wacky philosophical caper, washed-up, middle-aged...)
In this wacky philosophical caper, washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher Eddie Coffin flees scandal and ruin at home to find himself destitute in France. There he hooks up with Hubert, a one-armed armed robber recently released from prison, and the "thought gang" is born. Applying philosophy to larceny, this unlikely duo winds its way from Montpellier to Toulon, robbing banks and exploring the meaning of life, in one of the most irreverent and ingenious novels of our time.
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1994
(An ancient Sumerian bowl becomes the narrator of a comic ...)
An ancient Sumerian bowl becomes the narrator of a comic novel about a young London art appraiser, Rosa, whose appartment is gradually taken over by an uninvited houseguest, a sex-addicted kleptomaniac named Nikki. Tour.
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1997
(A successful computer graphics designer and former erotic...)
A successful computer graphics designer and former erotic dancer, Oceane satisfies her yearning for travel by bringing the world into her South London flat via courier, satellite, the Internet, radio, and other travelers, until she receives a letter from an ex who died a decade earlier. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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2005
(London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC. The...)
London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC. The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception. He hopes to turn it round and get the documentary series that will get him the Big Money. But what do you do if history is your sworn enemy and the whole world conspires against you? Is there any way, you could, for a moment, rule the world justly? Darkly comic, How to Rule The World follows Baxter's battle for truth, justice and classy colour grading as it takes him from the pass of Thermopylae, to the peacocking serial killers of Medieval France, and the war in Syria. A trip from the Garden of Eden to Armageddon, plus reggae. Demonstrating Fischer's inimitable talent for eviscerating social satire, How to the Rule the World is a magnificently funny read to stand alongside his best loved works, the Man Booker shortlisted Under the Frog, The Thought Gang and Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid, all of which Corsair will publish in e-book next year.
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(In April 2014, Viktor Orbán, the youngest elected Prime M...)
In April 2014, Viktor Orbán, the youngest elected Prime Minister in Hungarian history, became Prime Minister of Hungary for the third time, for the second time with a supermajority, making him the most significant Hungarian politician since the nineteenth century. Beat that. He changed Eastern Europe, and may well do the same for Western Europe. “ The Hungarian Tiger” is everything you wanted to know about Hungarian politics, but were afraid to ask. It is both a profile of Orbán and an examination of the highly distorted and unfavourable image of him that has been propagated by the international press who, when it comes to Hungary, don’t know their komondor from their kuvasz, or their kuruc from their labanc, or as we say in English, their arse from their elbow.
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(Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesma...)
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life…
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(The appearance of any new work by Tibor Fischer is a caus...)
The appearance of any new work by Tibor Fischer is a cause for celebration. Here, are two dazzling new stories that show why he is so admired. The first, Crushed Mexican Spiders, is classic Fischer. Don't be fooled by the title: the poet laureate of London grime is on home ground as a women returns home to discover the key to her Brixton flat no longer works... Haunting images and crisp one-liners are about all that link it with the second tale, Possibly Forty Ships, the true story of the Trojan War. In a scene straight out of a Tarantino movie, an old man is being tortured, pressed to reveal how the greatest legend of all really happened. (Let's just say it bears scant resemblance to Homer: 'If you see war as a few ships sinking in the middle of the waves, a few dozen warriors in armour, frankly not as gleaming as it could be, being welcomed whole-heartedly by the water, far, far away from Troy, if you see that as war, then it was a war...') The stories are published in a beautiful small hardback edition, each one illustrated by the work of the acclaimed Czech photographer Hana Vojáková. The book has two front covers: read one way you're in south London at night; turn it over and you’re being burned by the harsh glare of Mediterranean sunlight.
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Fischer was born in Stockport, England on November 15, 1959, the son of George and Margaret (Fekete) Fischer.
Fisher studied French and Latin at Cambridge University.
Tibor Fischer came to fame with his first novel, Under the Frog, which was published in 1992. This tale of the exploits of a Hungarian basketball team caught up in the anti-communist revolution of 1956. In the same year that Under the Frog was published in the United States.
Fischer’s second book, The Thought Gang, appeared on bookstore shelves in his native land. Fischer's subsequent novels include The Thought Gang and The Collector Collector. His novels have often featured dysfunctional central characters who eventually manage to achieve some kind of redemption.
Voyage to the End of the Room was published in 2003. It is about an agoraphobic ex-dancer. Good to be God was published by Alma Books on 4 September 2008. Fischer, in 2000, published a short story collection titled Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid, published in the U.S. as I Like Being Killed: Stories.
(A successful computer graphics designer and former erotic...)
2005(In April 2014, Viktor Orbán, the youngest elected Prime M...)
(Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesma...)
(An ancient Sumerian bowl becomes the narrator of a comic ...)
1997(Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows ...)
1992(In this wacky philosophical caper, washed-up, middle-aged...)
1994(The appearance of any new work by Tibor Fischer is a caus...)
(London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC. The...)
In April 2017, Fischer wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian where he defended prime minister Viktor Orbán's government against charges of authoritarianism and "antisemitism." He rejected notions of the government going after the George Soros funded Central European University, arguing that the relevant and controversial amendment to the law on higher education affects some 28 foreign institutions, 27 of which were found to be operating with “irregularities” and that none has been fined or shut down. Fischer posits that the CEU "is not being singled out for punishment" but "asking to be given privileged treatment."