Ian victoria hislop biography

English author (born 1959)

Victoria Hislop (néeHamson; 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.

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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