| Victoria Hislop | |
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Signing books in Greece, February 2008 |
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| 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 |
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www.victoriahislop.com |
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Victoria Hislop (née Victoria Hamson, 1959, Bromley, Kent[1]) is an award winning British author.
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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]
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]