Victoria Hislop
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"The Figurine", my new novel, was published by Headline in September 2023 - in Greece and France also out now!
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Very, very happy day. Receiving Honorary Citizenship. Here, with the Prime Minister, Kuriakos Mitsotakis. Thank you Greece. Ευχαριστώ για αυτή την μεγαλη τιμή. x
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Greece gives novelist Victoria Hislop honorary Greek citizenship | Life |
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This says it all!! Give the Parthenon marbles back to Greece – tech advances mean there are no more excuses
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It’s only a matter of time…..Greek prime minister to appeal to British public for return of Parthenon marbles
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Very excited to reveal the cover of Maria’s Island - my retelling of The Island for children - to be published by Walker Books on 3/6/21
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Still smiling after two weeks of training with my amazing partner Tilemachos for Greece’s “Dancing with the Stars”
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In a few hours, my beautiful shoes will take me for a dance…premiere of Dancing With The Stars tonight!
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Published today! Those Who Are Loved in paperback. Thank you Headline!
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I agree. Cummings is a total disgrace. I am one of many who obeyed lockdown rules to the letter, not visiting my dying mother, missing her final moments, not holding a proper funeral. Should I have listened to my « instinct » too? My unspent grief has turned to a kind of fury.
If Boris Johnson is ever looking for a lesson in principles, he need look no further than his now former minister. This is having a moral compass. This is being brave. This is decency.
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The new edition of The Island and One August Night ready for publication in Greece - ευχαριστώ πολύ Psichogios!
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We just « wrapped » at dawn on filming TV adaptation of Cartes Postales for ERT. Beautiful times, beautiful production. Thanks to everyone.
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I am excited to be starting my A-Z of favourite Greek tunes! And hope followers will share theirs too. It’s bound to be a rollercoaster of emotions - we will definitely smile, dance, cry and feel madly nostalgic for Greece.
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Very excited to see new TV tie-in of Kart Postal published on Greece today
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Immense privilège to be at the Final of Dancing with the Stars in Greece. Stunning performances from all four finalists.
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I haven’t given up writing (of course) but for a while I will be Dancing (With the Stars) on Star Channel Greece!
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Here it is…. The Greek glitter ball. VERY excited about the first live show for Dancing with the Stars on 17/10.
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Carte postale from Agios Nikolaos, Crete.. A calm September morning.
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Time for T... I can’t wait to see Thessaloniki again. It’s impossible to capture this fascinating city in a single image but this graceful Zongolopoulos sculpture on the seafront seems good for today: in this image I see freedom, joy and endless possibilities
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Today is C... and it could only be my beloved Crete. I took this last Spring across the Mirabello Bay - it seems perfect for now - sea, sky and the universal symbol of hope. A rainbow.
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S... Can’t wait to see Serifos again. Totally fell in love with this very wild and natural island - even the museum was beautifully picturesque.
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It was a beautiful night
@DWTS_GR
thank you to everyone! My waltz with the wonderful Tilemachos Fatsis…
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Today's Cartes Postale from Greece...sunset over the mountains
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We all need a survival mechanism and mine is to find favourite photos of Greece. Looking forward to seeing beautiful Nafplio again!
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Huge thanks to Neilsen for this award! And to Ian for collecting on my behalf - am launching The Figurine in Athens. Hope he made a good speech :-)
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Final carte postale for the day, the Rio-Antirrio bridge near Patra. Maybe the most beautiful in the world.
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X... can’t wait to revisit Xanthi in Thrace. Loved the mansions built by tobacco barons and surprising mix of religions and cultures. I was charmed by its cobbled streets.
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P...I can’t wait to see Parga again. Sandy beach, clear waters, pretty town, castle. What’s not to love?
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M - I can’t wait to see Meteora again. Once upon a time there were 24 monasteries on top of these lofty pinnacles (Isolation in the extreme). A phenomena that has to be seen to be believed.
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Today's carte postale from Greece... Beautiful Thessaloniki
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Today is my "giorti" in Greece and what better place to celebrate than in Serres
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I... can’t wait to see Ithaka, home of Odysseus, again. In a word it is idyllic. The poet Cavafy led me there last autumn with his exquisite metaphorical verse (named “Ithaka”) and I fell in love with it. Both the journey and the destination were beyond compare.
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R... for Rhodes. Beautiful and surprising Rhodes. Can’t wait to be there again.
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Our best - but final - dance for Dancing with the Stars Greece
@DWTS_Greece
. Amazing experience, wonderful times. Thank you to Star Channel/Green Pixel and above all to Tilemachos Fatsis, my glorious partner. Δεν θα το ξεχάσω ποτε.
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W... for wondrous and windy places (there is no “w” in Greek). I can’t wait to be there again, feeling that breeze and drying off in the sunshine post-swim.
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This was my cha cha on Dancing with the Stars Greece this week (filmed by my friend on her TV). It was FUN!!
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Today's carte postale from Greece. So many shades of blue...
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Salsa has to be the most joyful dance on the planet. So much fun on Dancing with the Stars in Greece! Thanks to everyone for keeping me there!
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Proud to receive Honorary Doctorate from
@SheffieldUni
along with the legendary Mayor of Thessaloniki, Giannis Boutaris, here with
@KateSmithFCO
British Ambassador
@BoutarisIoannis
@SpirosPengas
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Q... no such letter in Greece. But quintessence, there definitely is. Everyone will define it differently but for me it is the sea. I know my Greek friends are missing it too. None of us can wait to see it again!
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Another very special S!
@VicHislop
and "S" is for Spinalonga - and the The Island. A fascinating place to visit. Anyone who has been on a video conference with me recently will have seen a large print of this picture on the wall in our study. One of of my favourite 'photo's.
@SLStride
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Today's "Carte Postale" from Greece. The sky really is this colour at the end of October.
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Today's carte postale - Kavala in North Greece. How can the sky be so blue in November?
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Today is N! Can’t wait to see Naxos again. I even miss the simple aesthetics of a hardware store. Loved this one in the mountain village of Filoti, and in a nearby taverna tasted the perfect myzithra cheese. N is for nostalgia - for absolutely everything Greek.
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E today! And I can’t wait to see Ermoupolis again. Capital of Syros, it’s the grandest of all towns in the Cyclades, with its elegant mansions and many buildings that survive from the Venetian period. Beautiful.
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Today is D-day. I can’t wait to see Delphi again. Not only the most spectacular archaeological site on the planet but a spiritual place too. A place to “know thyself” according to the inscription.
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Z...this spectacular shipwreck in Zakynthos made a huge impression on me. Washed up there in a storm in 1980, the MV Panayiotis sits rusting on the beach. Feeling a little stranded today, so it struck me as a metaphorical image to end on. A-Z recommences tomorrow with: MUSIC!
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Today's carte postale from Greece. Lemons fighting for space on my tree
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Today is B...looking forward to seeing almost any Beach in Greece and to wearing my sand shoes again. Took this on Myrtos Beach in Kephalonia - « spectacular » is an understatement.
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Final carte postale from my November travels around Greece. Sun shining in Syntagma Square.
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V... I can’t wait to revisit Vathy in Sifnos, where I spotted this majestic cat basking in the sunshine. Wonder if he is still there...
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U...I can’t wait to revisit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Delos. Birthplace of Artemis and Apollo, it was a shrine to the latter from the 8th c BC.Once a sacred treasury, it’s now a treasure trove of archaeological finds, uninhabited except for cats and figures such as these.
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Spinalonga - It never stops exerting its strange power. Taken this week.
http://t.co/nLbLkYSLiL
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In background Spinalonga. In foreground Giorgo's boat, from Greek tv serial of Το Νησί/The Island - taken today.
http://t.co/juGAyPmExS
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Beautiful gift! How can I ever open such divine wines! A gift from my partner’s parents - thank you Kyrie and Kyria Fatsis!
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Today is B... and a classic from the legendary singer-songwriter Grigoris Bithikotsis. It feels absolutely quintessentially Greek. Happy Greek Orthodox Easter. Hope you enjoy this - it certainly takes me a few thousand miles south from where I am sitting.
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The jive is a joyful dance! Here’s my attempt to be a diva last night on
@DWTS_GR
Dancing with the Stars! Thanks to everyone who kept me in!
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Final "carte postale" of the summer. Agios Nikolaos reminding me a little of Venice.
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Today's carte postale from Greece: a dancer thousands of years old in Amphipoli Museum
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O...Can’t wait to be in Ormos Ysterion, Tinos, again. This lonely chair is waiting to be filled - and what a day it will be when every seaside taverna and kafenion is packed once again. I’ll be there for the party!
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KK today...can’t wait to visit Kouphonisi again, smallest of the inhabited Cyclades, with Keros (opposite). I loved these cairns - a gentle way of marking a visit, an impermanent signature. Kouphonisi is a jewel, small enough to walk all the way round, with turquoise seas.
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Excited about arrival of Those Who Are Loved paperback tomorrow!
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So, now we are here... over the following weeks I’m going to share an A-Z of my favourite places in beautiful Greece..... today it’s A...
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Carte postale of Kalamata. Warm sea today, a perfect swim.
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Philosophy in a Peloponnese service station. Only in Greece...
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Beautiful 10th anniversary limited edition of The Island published today - thank you so much
@he
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http://t.co/pEbfsJaLCE
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F! I can’t wait to see Folegandros again. Wild, remote and utterly unspoiled Cycladic Island. Loved this explosive sunset - a nightly phenomenon when I was there.
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J..I can’t wait to revisit the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki - and also to see the project for the new Holocaust Museum unfold. The plans are stunning and a fitting memorial to the 60,000 Jews of the city who were deported to the camps in 1943 and never returned.
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Carte Postale from Greece - an ancient jockey in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
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Book trailer for "The Figurine", which will be published in September.
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Victoria Hislop on doing Strictly (the Greek one): My partner is beautiful — I can’t stop looking at him
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Carte Postale of Palamidi Fortress, Nafplio. Beautiful and historic city.
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Much better than peaches and cream: peaches with Greek yogurt and mountain honey.
#Crete
http://t.co/hL7Vqrb488
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H. I can’t wait to revisit Homer’s Tomb on Ios Island. At the end of a stony path, above the sea, in a wild and remote location, it seemed as if his soul lives on.
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Today, G. Can’t wait to see Galaxidi again. Loved these bright nets laid out by the harbour’s edge.
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One August Night: Sequel to much-loved classic, The Island by Victoria Hislop | WHSmith
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Antinous in the Archaeological Museum Athens. Today's postcard from Greece.
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Mysterious ghost city of Famagusta, Cyprus, subject of my forthcoming novel....
http://t.co/5LlCIUWTTF
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Postcard of the day: pomegranates in Greece. A warm 30c there on Sunday.
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