| 词条 | Victoria Hislop |
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| image = Victoria Hislop in autograph session.jpg | imagesize = 240px | name = Victoria Hislop | caption = Hislop signing books in Greece, February 2008 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}} | birth_place = Bromley, Kent, England | alma_mater = St Hilda's College, Oxford | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | nationality = British | spouse = {{marriage|Ian Hislop|1988}} | children = 2 | period = | genre = | subject = | awards = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|http://www.victoriahislop.com}} | footnotes = }}Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.[1] Early lifeBorn in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[2] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford[3] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} CareerHer novel The Island (2005), which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin",{{Cite quote|date=November 2009}} 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.[4] 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.[5] Personal lifeHislop lived in London for over 20 years, and now lives in Sissinghurst.[2] She married Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on 16 April 1988 in Oxford. They have two children, Emily Helen (born 1990) and William David (born 1993).[6] BibliographyNovels
"Those Who Are Loved" (2019) Short stories
Non fiction
References1. ^{{cite news|title = My Secret Life, Independent Magazine 3 January 2009|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/my-secret-life-victoria-hislop-novelist-49-1219610.html|accessdate = 2009-01-05 | work=The Independent | location=London | first=Charlotte | last=Philby | date=3 January 2009}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8342000/8342680.stm |title=Victoria Hislop's Kent favourites |publisher=BBC Kent |accessdate=21 November 2009 | date=4 November 2009}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Here come the girls...|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2010/03/11/Books+(ot_books)/5055397.print/|publisher=Oxford Mail|date=11 March 2010}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318100114/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html|title=Order your copy of Ox-Tales : Talking Books : Oxfam GB|archivedate=18 March 2012|publisher=}} 5. ^Hislop [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9277152/Victoria-Hislop-the-tragedy-of-my-beloved-Greece.htm "The tragedy of my beloved Greece"], Sunday Telegraph, 20 May 2012 6. ^Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984-2006 External links
9 : 1959 births|Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford|English writers|Living people|People educated at Tonbridge Grammar School|People from Bromley|English women novelists|English short story writers|British women short story writers |
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