Victoria Hislop
| Victoria Hislop | |
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Hislop signing books in Greece, February 2008 | |
| Born |
1959 (age 56–57) Bromley, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Spouse | Ian Hislop (m. 1988) |
| Children | 2 |
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Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.[1]
Personal
Born in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[2] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford[3] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author. She lived in London for over 20 years, and now lives in Sissinghurst.[2]
She married Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on 16 April 1988 in Oxford. They have two children, Emily Helen (born 1990) and William David (born 1993).[4]
Career
Her novel The Island (2005), which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin", was a number one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. To Nisi (The Island) was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA.
In 2009, she donated the short story Aflame in Athens to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the "Fire" collection.[5] Hislop has a particular affection for Greece, visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on Crete.[6]
Works
Novels
- The Island (2005)
- The Return (2008)
- The Thread (2011)
- The Sunrise (2014)
- Cartes Postales from Greece (2016)
Short stories
- One Cretan Evening and Other Stories (2011)
- 'One Cretan Evening' (2008)
- 'The Pine Tree' (2008)
- 'By The Fire' (2009)
- 'The Warmest Christmas Ever' (2007)
- 'Aflame in Athens' (2009)
- The Last Dance and Other Stories (2013; ten stories)
Non fiction
- Sink or Swim: The Self-help Book for Men Who Never Read Them (2002) (with Duncan Goodhew)
- Fix Your Life - Now!: The Six Step Plan to Help You Fix Your Life (2012) (with Duncan Goodhew)
References
- ↑ Philby, Charlotte (3 January 2009). "My Secret Life, Independent Magazine 3 January 2009". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
- 1 2 "Victoria Hislop's Kent favourites". BBC Kent. 4 November 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ↑ "Here come the girls...". Oxford Mail. 11 March 2010.
- ↑ Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984-2006
- ↑ "Order your copy of Ox-Tales : Talking Books : Oxfam GB". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012.
- ↑ Victoria Hislop "The tragedy of my beloved Greece", Sunday Telegraph, 20 May 2012