Victoria Hislop
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Victoria Hislop
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Victoria Hislop | Signing books in Greece, February 2008 | Born | 1959 (age 53–54)
Bromley, Kent, England | Occupation | Novelist | Nationality | British | Alma mater | St Hilda 's College, Oxford | Spouse(s) | Ian Hislop | Children | 2 | www.victoriahislop.com |
Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Personal * 2 Career * 3 Works * 3.1 Novels * 3.2 Short stories * 3.3 Non fiction * 4 References * 5 External links |
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Personal[edit]
Born in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[2] She read English at St Hilda 's College, Oxford[3] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.[citation needed] 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]
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Career[edit]
Her novel The Island (2005), which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli 's Mandolin",[this quote needs a citation] 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]
Victoria Hislop
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Victoria Hislop | Signing books in Greece, February 2008 | Born | 1959 (age 53–54)
Bromley, Kent, England | Occupation | Novelist | Nationality | British | Alma mater | St Hilda 's College, Oxford | Spouse(s) | Ian Hislop | Children | 2 | www.victoriahislop.com |
Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Personal * 2 Career * 3 Works * 3.1 Novels * 3.2 Short stories * 3.3 Non fiction * 4 References * 5 External links |
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Personal[edit]
Born in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[2] She read English at St Hilda 's College, Oxford[3] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.[citation needed] 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]
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Career[edit]
Her novel The Island (2005), which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli 's Mandolin",[this quote needs a citation] 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]
References: 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] ------------------------------------------------- * Not For Me, I 'm Russian (2002) * The Island (2005) * The Return (2008) * The Thread (2011) Short stories[edit] * One Cretan Evening (2011) * 'One Cretan Evening ' (2008) * 'The Pine Tree ' (2008) * 'By The Fire ' (2009) * 'The Warmest Christmas Ever ' (2007) * 'Aflame in Athens ' (2009) Non fiction[edit] * Sink or Swim: The Self-help Book for Men Who Never Read Them (2002) (with Duncan Goodhew)