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Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop studied English Literature at Oxford University and afterwards worked in book publishing, PR and journalism. During her time as a journalist, she wrote on education and travel for national newspapers and magazines and was sent on assignments to every continent.
Inspired by a visit to Spinalonga, the abandoned Greek leprosy colony, Victoria wrote The Island in 2005. She was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards. The novel became an international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold worldwide, and was turned into a 26 part Greek TV series.
This was followed by The Return, set during the Spanish civil war, andthen The Thread, which tells the turbulent tale of Thessaloniki and its people across the 20th century. Published in 2011 it was shortlisted for a British Book Award. The Sunrise, set in Cyprus, was published in September 2014, and was a number one bestseller in the UK and Greece.
Cartes Postales from Greece, which is her first work of fully colour-illustrated fiction, went straight to number one in the UK
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My Secret Life: Victoria Hislop, novelist, 49
The home I grew up in ... is in Kent. Thirty years after my parents sold up, I gave in to a long-held desire and went to see it. It was the same, but I realised how much I'd changed.
When I was a child I wanted to be ... a tennis player at Wimbledon. I spent hours and hours hitting a ball against the wooden garage doors. As I saw on the nostalgia visit, those doors have been replaced with something more modern. That made me sad.
You wouldn't know it but I'm very good at ... singing. I practise with my karaoke machine. Singing is a great release. My favourite numbers? Early Elton John.
You may not know it but I'm no good at ... ice-skating. I really hate ice, falling over on it, being cold, and feeling insecure.
The moment that changed me for ever ... was having my first child. This is where my life divides into the "before" and "after".
My greatest inspiration ... comes from visiting unfamiliar foreign cities, sitting in cafés and wondering what goes on in the lives of the people there – and eavesdropping.
The one t English author (born 1959) Victoria Hislop (néeHamson; born 1959) is an English author.[2] 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] 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 has a second home on the island of Crete.[7] Victoria
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