Victoria Hislop


Victoria Hislop is an English author.

Early life

Born in Bromley, Kent, 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 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 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 and William David.
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.

Novels