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.
Né sur les rives de la Volga, Torda est arraché ŕ sa famille ŕ l’âge de sept ans par un chamane qui connaît ses dons étranges. Celui-ci grandit dans l’enseignement de son maître et découvre qu’il peut ŕ volonté utiliser son corps astral pour se transporter en d’autres lieux ou connaître l’avenir des ętres qu’il rencontre. Ces pouvoirs extraordinaires en font un jour le chamane privilégié et le conseiller politique du tout jeune prince Attila qu’une succession d’événements élčve sur le trône. C’est l’époque oů, trop ŕ l’étroit sur leurs territoires ancestraux, les Huns partent ŕ la conquęte de l’Europe. Bientôt Attila, qui prend le pouvoir supręme et dont la réputation effraie autant les Goths que les empereurs romains d’Orient et d’Occident, les conduit jusqu’en la ville impériale de Byzance, puis en Gaule et aux portes de Rome, en 452. Ce roman foisonnant relate l’épopée avec un grand souci de la vérité historique. Car les Huns, qui firent trembler le monde chrétien, ne furent pas le peuple sanguinaire et redoutable qu’on a prétendu, mais une mosaďque de tribus civilisées. S’ils pratiquaient abondamment la sorcellerie et adoptaient dans leurs combats une conduite sauvage, ils possédaient aussi une culture raffinée. C’est cet ensemble de contrastes et la présence de personnages historiques qui donnent ŕ ce roman des couleurs et un ton d’une extręme originalité.
commentaire:
„J’ai dévoré ce livre qui raconte la vie d’un enfant qui était né, prédestiné par les esprits, ŕ devenir le chamane d’Attila. On le suit ŕ travers les différentes étapes de sa vie des bords de la Volga en passant par la Transylvanie et le Danube… pleines d’événements étranges et de rebondissements…”
Auteur d’une douzaine de livres (romans, essais consacrés ŕ l’histoire des civilisations) et scénariste, Tibor Fonyodi est né en Hongrie, en 1965.
Inspiré par les travaux récents des historiens, Le Chamane d’Attila, roman de l’écrivain hongrois Tibor Fonyodi (paru en français aux éditions Pygmalion en 2005) dépeint la civilisation des Huns de maničre nouvelle…
Tibor Fonyódi is completed the script of the Oszthatatlan Ember (Indivisible Man) feature for Grant Film Ltd. The movie is about the life of the well-known Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok. The production starts in fall of 2006, András Surányi directs the movie, and the producer is Endre Nagy.
After the Hungarian publisher Kalandor agreed with the French Pygmalion, the company published Tibor Fonyódi’s historic novel “Scourges of God” nationalwide in France. The base novel of The Way of the Troops series printed under the title “Le Chamane d’Attila”.
