- Born
- Tibor Fonyodi (Harrison Fawcett) was born in Budapest on 2nd June 1965. Writing has been his hobby since he was ten. In the beginning he wrote to entertain himself and his narrow circles. He entered various competitions and school literary contests. Following his studies at the secondary school of engineering he completed his compulsory military service (1985-86). During this time he encountered several paranormal phenomena, which determied his intellectual interest for years to come. He studied theology at the Pazmany Peter University from 1989. It was during these years that he completed his first considerable works in the field of cultural history and occultism. He's been considered an expert of the field ever since. Following his university years he started to work as a manual worker. He established the stories and synopsyses of his later novels between 1993 and 1998. He came forward as Harrison Fawcett in 1998 with his work entitled Warriors of the Cathedral , a Sci-Fi novel, which takes place in ancient Rome. For the second volume (The Legend of the Cathedral) he won the award for best Sci-Fi novel of the year in 1999. From 1998 onwards he's written several series of books, he's been constantly publishing and his novels have run into several editions in Hungary.
He's been a full-time writer from 2001. As a new step in his successful career as a novelist, his novel, The Scourges of God, based on the life of Attila and the final days of the Hun empire, was published in France by the Parisian Pygmalion publishing company in the spring of 2005 under the title of Le Chamane d'Attila. His career as a screenplay witer began in 2000. He was one of the writers of the American horror movie, Metamorphosis, and he's one of the creators of the treatment that is the base for the screenplay of the international production, Budapest Rose. Several of his screenplays are in pre-production.- IMDb Mini Biography By: der.tamas@carion.hu
- His philosophy on life could be summed up in one sentence: to live and let live. Referring to his fundamentally curious nature, he considers himself a renaissance man. This positive attitude towards life appears regularly in his works, in which he looks upon life as a gift of God, with unwavering optimism.
- As a screenplay writer he likes to adapt historical themes. Iron Curtain takes place after the revolution of 1956, during the bloody years of the Communist terror. The Siege of the Sun takes place in the 15th century and tells the life story of the hero János Hunyadi, who took up the sword against the peril and expansion of the Islam. Toldi, which is in pre-production at the moment, is based on a heroic poem and it takes us to the 14th century, to the age of the knight king, Louis the Great.
- He's a lucky man, as his hobby and job are the same. He writes his novels following a comprehensive research. The Cathedral stories take the readers to the times of the Roman Empire. The books matured over many years, while he sat in libraries and studied specialist litarature in the fields of the Roman Empire and the history of black art. His novel, The Power of the Crown, could be regarded as a monograph about the history of the Hungarian crown. The story takes place in the distant future, in an environment similar to that of the Star Wars. He conjures up the events of two thousand years related to the crown from the perspective of this environment (Few know that the crown, which was stowed away in safety from the Russians, was found by American soldiers in July 1945. The relic was taken to the United States, where it was kept in Fort Knox under the greatest secrecy between 1945 and 1978.)
- As a founder and chief writer of Mysterious Universe he's been a regular guest lecturer at national and international Sci-Fi congresses, and member of the jury at competitions related to the field. He's a founder and lecturer of the annual HUNGAROCON School of Writing. Many of the young amateur writers, who have taken part in the four-day course, are today considered defining creators of Hungarian Sci-Fi literature.
- Besides literature, studying occult phenomena has always been his favorite pastime. He wrote his first essays about this field too. He published his writings in the Third Eye esoteric magazine in the early nineties.
- A great deed is not something that nobody did before you, but something that half the world wants to do after you.
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