Alexander Fiske-Harrison

Alexander Fiske-Harrison
Born	(1976-07-22) 22 July 1976 (age 40)
Occupation	writer, actor

The Pendulum
Alexander Fiske-Harrison & Gareth Kennerley
Written by	Alexander Fiske-Harrison
Date premiered	3 June 2008
Place premiered	Jermyn Street Theatre, West End, London

Alexander Rupert Fiske-Harrison (born 22 July 1976) is an English prize-winning author and journalist, broadcaster and conservationist. His writing has been noted for his immersion in his subject matter. He also trained and worked for some years as a Method actor.

For his first book Into The Arena: The World Of The Spanish Bullfight, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2011, he became a bullfighter.

For his second, Fiesta: How To Survive The Bulls Of Pamplona, to which the Mayor of Pamplona wrote the foreword, he became a bull-runner.

His short story "Les Invincibles" was the first by a British author to be shortlisted for Le Prix Hemingway, 'The Hemingway Prize', in France in 2016.

He is currently researching wolves, dogs and human-canine interactions and common history for a book provisionally titled The Land Of Wolves.

He is the youngest son of Clive Fiske Harrison, chairman of Fiske plc, where he is also a non-executive director. His brother Jules William Fiske Harrison was, according to The Times, a "famously skilled and fearless skier" who died in a skiing accident in Zermatt, Switzerland in 1988.

Fiske-Harrison studied biological sciences and philosophy at the University of Oxford and as a posgraduate at the University of London. He also trained at the acting school the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City when Marlon Brando was its chairman. (He was consultant on the Universal Pictures' documentary on Brando, Listen To Me Marlon.)