Biography victoria hislop

biography victoria hislop

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  • Victoria Hislop studied English Literature at Oxford University and afterwards worked in book publishing, PR and journalism.

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      Victoria 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).
    the thread victoria hislop Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.
    emily hislop wedding In 2019, Victoria was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sheffield, and in 2020 she was given Honorary Citizenship by the Greek President for her promotion of Greece.
    are ian and victoria hislop still together Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford, and worked in publishing, PR and as a journalist before becoming a novelist.

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  • Victoria Hislop is an English author.

    • Victoria Hislop

    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. 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 reasons, and

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      Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born ) is an English author.

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      Inspired by a visit to Spinalonga, the abandoned Greek leprosy colony, Victoria wrote The Island in She was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards and the novel became an international bestseller, translated into 40 languages, with over 6 million copies sold worldwide.
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  • ‘Hislop’s sun-soaked summer read, set against a ravishing Aegean backdrop, combines romance and trouble family history with a tense drama of cultural and political misdeeds’ Daily Mail ‘Well worth sinking into for its exquisite exploration of history, forgiveness and redemption.’.

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      Victoria is the author of nine novels including the multi-million copy bestseller, The Island.

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  • Event at Odeon of Herodes Atticus features readings by Lina Nikolakopoulou, Victoria Hislop and Alicia Stallings, music by Tom Smail The city’s cannons sounded 37 times in Messolonghi on the day that Lord Byron breathed his last, one for each year of his short life.