Victoria Hislop Explained

Victoria Hislop
Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Bromley, Kent, England
Alma Mater:St Hilda's College, Oxford
Occupation:Novelist
Children:2; including William

Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.[2]

Early life

Born in Bromley, Kent, she was raised in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[3] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford,[4] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.[5]

Career

Her novel The Island (2005) 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.[6] Hislop has a particular affection for Greece. She visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on the island of Crete.[7]

Personal life

Victoria married Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on 16 April 1988 in Oxford; the couple have two children: Emily Helen (born 1990) and William David (born 1993).[8]

Hislop lived in London for more than twenty years, but now lives in Sissinghurst.

In 2020, Hislop was granted honorary Greek citizenship for promoting modern Greek history and culture.[9] The following year she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, the Greek version of Strictly Come Dancing.[10]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Non-fiction

External links

Notes and References

  1. Greek Government Gazette B/2954/2020
  2. News: My Secret Life, Independent Magazine 3 January 2009. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/my-secret-life-victoria-hislop-novelist-49-1219610.html . 17 August 2022 . subscription . live. 2009-01-05 . The Independent . London . Charlotte . Philby . 3 January 2009.
  3. News: Victoria Hislop's Kent favourites . BBC Kent . 21 November 2009 . 4 November 2009.
  4. News: Here come the girls.... Oxford Mail. 11 March 2010.
  5. News: Foster. Sophie. Victoria Hislop: 'Ian was in a different league to me at Oxford - he charged me 50p to borrow his essays'. The Sunday Telegraph. 16 June 2019. 18 June 2019.
  6. Web site: Order your copy of Ox-Tales : Talking Books : Oxfam GB. https://web.archive.org/web/20120318100114/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html. 18 March 2012.
  7. Hislop The tragedy of my beloved Greece https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9277152/Victoria-Hislop-the-tragedy-of-my-beloved-Greece.html, Sunday Telegraph, 20 May 2012
  8. Web site: Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984–2006.
  9. Web site: Greece gives novelist Victoria Hislop honorary Greek citizenship . ekathimerini.com . 21 July 2020 .
  10. News: Rose. Hilary. Victoria Hislop on doing Strictly (the Greek one): My partner is beautiful — I can't stop looking at him. The Times. 11 October 2021. 11 October 2021. subscription.

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