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Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

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Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.

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No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

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The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

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Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

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When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

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You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: November 15th, 1959

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