Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London, where he now lives, he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, i>Under the Frog/i>, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.