{"id":34122,"date":"2026-04-15T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/?p=34122"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:44:47","slug":"victoria-hislop-la-plus-grecque-des-ecrivains-britanniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/victoria-hislop-la-plus-grecque-des-ecrivains-britanniques\/?lang=fr","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Hislop, la plus grecque des \u00e9crivains britanniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34123\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4.avif 1200w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4-500x263.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4-321x169.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WLAQ6ZH4U5EG3JBCMHNCDTDNO4-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Hislop le 25 avril 2014 \u00e0 Paris<br \/>afp.com\/PIERRE ANDRIEU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph article-body-paragraph article__item   article-body-paragraph--first \">C\u2019\u00e9tait un matin de confinement, d\u00e9but 2020, Victoria Hislop re\u00e7oit chez elle, \u00e0 Londres, un coup de fil du Premier ministre grec Kyri\u00e1kos Mitsot\u00e1kis. &#8220;J\u2019ai tout de suite reconnu sa voix, atypique, avec une pointe d\u2019accent am\u00e9ricain, nous raconte la romanci\u00e8re britannique, attabl\u00e9e \u00e0 la caf\u00e9t\u00e9ria du mus\u00e9e des arts cycladiques d\u2019Ath\u00e8nes. Il me dit qu\u2019il veut me faire citoyenne d\u2019honneur de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexpress.fr\/culture\/livre\/le-fil-des-souvenirs-victoria-la-grecque_1270088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gr\u00e8ce pour services rendus au pays<\/a> et notamment pour avoir promu l\u2019histoire et les traditions de la Gr\u00e8ce \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger. J\u2019\u00e9tais \u00e9berlu\u00e9e, et flatt\u00e9e. Deux mois apr\u00e8s le confinement, j\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7ue en grande pompe \u00e0 Ath\u00e8nes par le Premier ministre et la pr\u00e9sidente de la R\u00e9publique Ekater\u00edni Sakellaropo\u00falou, une femme formidable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph article-body-paragraph article__item   \">Dans la foul\u00e9e, Victoria Hislop acquiert un passeport grec. Tr\u00e8s pratique pour faciliter ses allers et retours entre l\u2019Angleterre et sa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexpress.fr\/culture\/livre\/l-ile-des-oublies_1136875.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seconde patrie, notamment en Cr\u00e8te,<\/a> o\u00f9 elle a achet\u00e9 une belle maison. Tout cela, elle nous en fait part en fran\u00e7ais, perfectionn\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce au compagnon fran\u00e7ais de sa m\u00e8re. D\u00e9cid\u00e9ment, la dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e d\u2019Oxford Victoria Hislop, qui parle \u00e9galement grec, v\u00e9ritable star dans son pays comme en Gr\u00e8ce, n\u2019est pas une Britannique comme les autres\u2026 Et l\u00e0 voil\u00e0 \u00e0 la t\u00eate de son 9e roman, <i>La Statuette<\/i>, publi\u00e9 quasi simultan\u00e9ment \u00e0 Londres et \u00e0 Paris et bient\u00f4t \u00e0 Ath\u00e8nes. Un roman-fleuve, o\u00f9 elle m\u00eale la grande et la petite histoire, le politique et l\u2019intime, fractures sociales et fresques familiales &#8211; c\u2019est sa marque de fabrique &#8211; sur fond de dictature des colonels et de trafic d\u2019\u0153uvres d\u2019art antiques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u2019\u00e9tait un matin de confinement, d\u00e9but 2020, Victoria Hislop re\u00e7oit chez elle, \u00e0 Londres, un coup de fil du Premier ministre grec Kyri\u00e1kos Mitsot\u00e1kis. &#8220;J\u2019ai tout de suite reconnu sa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entretien","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34128,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34122\/revisions\/34128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}