Andrew Fabinyi (27 December 1908–25 July 1978) was a Hungarian-born Australian publisher and bookseller, working first with F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne and then Pergamon Press (Australia), Sydney. He strove for an increased public interest in Australian society and civilisation and a broad internationalism in culture and politics. He became "extremely influential in the literary community of Australia" and was awarded an Order of the British Empire "in recognition of his work for Australian literature". Early education and career Fabinyi was born Andor Fabinyi in Budapest, Hungary on 27 December 1908. His parents were Imre Fabinyi, a lawyer, and his wife Margit, née Nagel. He studied at the Mintagimnázium (English, "model secondary school") and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He then successfully undertook studies for a doctorate with a thesis on the psychology of aesthetics. He made his first entry into the booktrade by joining the Budapest bookshop and publisher, Lauffer, and then in 1932 by starting an agency distributing British books in Hungary and representing Oxford University Press. Harrap and Longman, Green, among other publishers. Migration to Australia With the approach of the Second World War and the rise of the fascist leader Admiral Horthy, Fabinyi feared being forced to join the army and to fight for Hitler and left Hungary to migrate to New Zealand which, as he later explained, "was the furthest place I could go." Arriving at Melbourne in July 1939 after a short stay in Sydney where he had tried without success to "set himself up as a publisher's agent", he was introduced to the Melbourne bookseller Frank Cheshire by Enid Moodie Heddle, the Australian representative for Longman, and was offered, and accepted, a job in the F. W. Cheshire bookshop in Little Collins Street. Deciding to stay in Australia, he obtained permanent residency and in October 1940 married Elisabeth Clare Robinson. In 1941 he volunteered for the Australian army but was rejected because of his Hungarian nationality (at that time Hungarians were regarded as aliens). In 1942 he succeeded in joining the Citizen Military Forces and being posted to a labour battalion in Albury. Later he joined the Australian Army Education Service. Becoming an Australian citizen in December 1944, he was a Warrant Officer and in charge of the Service's libraries when he was discharged following the end of the War. F. W. Cheshire Rejoining F. W. Cheshire, Fabinyi developed the bookselling side of the