Hay Budapest: Tibor Fischer just delighted to be himself

Fischer, whose short story collection was called Don’t Read This Book If
You’re Stupid
, talked about the gratitude his parents felt towards
Britain for taking them in during 1956 and about their new life in Stockport
where it was hard to find spaghetti and decent wine (something that may not
necessarily have changed).

He said that Under The Frog, his 1992 novel that was shortlisted for
the Booker prize, was like a “true documentary” about the
Hungarian revolution and the Stalinist years in Hungary during the 1950s,
joking: “My father really was a basketball player and really did travel
round the country in a railway carriage with his fellow players, naked for
some of the time and displaying their arses to people.”

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.

Fischer, who studied French at says he is only 10 pages or so into his new
novel – “I’m not the most prolific writer in the world and, sadly,
writing a novel involves a lot of effort.”

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