Fran Fabriczki
Fran Fabriczki was born in Budapest and has lived in Los Angeles and London. She read English at the University of Cambridge and worked in publishing for several years before going freelance to focus on her own writing. She graduated from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA in 2022 and received the Curtis Brown Award for her dissertation.
Porcupines is her first novel.
© Zsófia Bodnár
Publishing April 14, 2026
with Summit Books
Fran Fabriczki was born in Budapest and has lived in Los Angeles and London. She read English at the University of Cambridge and worked in publishing for several years before going freelance to focus on her own writing. She graduated from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA in 2022 and received the Curtis Brown Award for her dissertation.
Pre-order
Events
Fig Tree Proof Party at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Tuesday, 14 October
Fig Tree introduces three upcoming debuts exploring dysfunctional families: in Fran Fabriczki’s Porcupines, the daughter of a Hungarian immigrant tracks down her mysterious father; Angela Tomaski’s The Infamous Gilberts sees five siblings growing up in a crumbling stately home; in Grace Murray’s Blank Canvas, a student concocts a web of lies involving her supposedly dead father. Chaired by Daniel Hahn.
Agent
Foreign Rights