Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop

Signing books in Greece, February 2008
Born 1959 (age 52–53)
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 Victoria Hamson, 1959, Bromley, Kent[1]) is an award winning British author.

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Personal

Born in Bromley, she grew up in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls.[2] She read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford 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).[3]

Career

Her first novel The Island, which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin", was a Number 1 Bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. 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.[4]

Works

Novels

Non fiction

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