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Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959 in Stockport, England) 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 and ''Under the Frog'' became the first debut novel to feature on a Booker Prize shortlist. ==Life and career== Fischer's parents were Hungarian basketball players, who fled Hungary in 1956. He studied French and Latin at Cambridge University. 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 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''. In 1992, ''Under the Frog'' won a Betty Trask Prize for literature, and was the first debut novel to be shortlisted for the Booker prize.〔http://literature.britishcouncil.org/tibor-fischer〕 Fischer's subsequent novels have often featured dysfunctional central characters who eventually manage to achieve some kind of redemption. They include ''The Thought Gang'', about a delinquent 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 5000-year-old Sumerian pot. Fischer's novel, ''Voyage to the End of the Room'' was published in 2003, and concerned an agoraphobic ex-dancer. His next novel, ''Good to be God'' was published by Alma Books on 4 September 2008. In it a broke, unemployed habitual failure uses his friend's credit card to start a new life in Florida, and decides that the fastest way to make a fortune would be to become a deity. 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''). In 2009 Fischer became the Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at City and Guilds of London Art School.〔(Tibor Fischer is the School's New Royal Literary Fund Fellow )〕〔(rlf.org – Fellow at City & Guilds of London School of Art, 2009/10 )〕 Fischer is represented by Louise Greenberg Books Ltd.〔http://literature.britishcouncil.org/tibor-fischer〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tibor Fischer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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