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Early life
Born in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School. She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.
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. Hislop has a particular affection for Greece, visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on the island of Crete.
Personal life
The then Victoria Hamson 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).
Hislop lived in London for over 20 years, and now lives in Sissinghurst.
In July 2020, Hislop was granted honorary Greek citizenship for promoting modern Greek history and culture.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Island (2005)
- The Return (2008)
- The Thread (2011)
- The Sunrise (2014)
- La ville orpheline (French 2015)
- Cartes Postales from Greece (2016)
- Those Who Are Loved (2019)
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 5 January 2009.
- ^ a b "Victoria Hislop's Kent favourites". BBC Kent. 4 November 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ^ "Here come the girls..." Oxford Mail. 11 March 2010.
- ^ Foster, Sophie (16 June 2019). "Victoria Hislop: 'Ian was in a different league to me at Oxford - he charged me 50p to borrow his essays'". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Order your copy of Ox-Tales : Talking Books : Oxfam GB". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012.
- ^ Hislop "The tragedy of my beloved Greece", Sunday Telegraph, 20 May 2012
- ^ "Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984–2006".
- ^ "Greece gives novelist Victoria Hislop honorary Greek citizenship". ekathimerini.com. 21 July 2020.