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Mischa Hiller (born 1962) is a British novelist. His novel Sabra Zoo won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book prize, presented in Sydney, Australia in May 2011.

Personal life

He grew up in the United Kingdom and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He lives in Cambridge, England. Hiller suffers from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, diagnosed in 2006 after ten years of illness.

Works

• Sabra Zoo, Telegram Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84659-077-1
  • Fuga dall'inferno. Una storia palestinese, Translator S. Montis, Newton Compton, 2010, ISBN 978-88-541-2134-8
• Shake Off, Telegram Books, 13 September 2011, ISBN 978-1-84659-088-7
• Disengaged,Canongate Books,ISBN 978-1-84751-557-5

Reviews

• Maya Jaggi (19 February 2011). "Shake Off by Mischa Hiller – review". The Guardian.
• Lucy Popesc (23 February 2011). "Shake Off, By Mischa Hiller". The Independent.
• Ina Friedman (3 April 2011). "Suspense / Knowing the enemy". Haaretz.

References

1. "2011 prize: final programme". Commonwealth Foundation. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011.
2. Short story and poetry competition Archived 2 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Bridport Prize (17 January 1978). Retrieved 10 August 2011.
3. Mischa Hiller (8 December 2014) . "Why I turned down an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2011 Sydney Writer's Festival". Medium. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

External links

• Author's website
• Sabra Zoo website
• "Review and author interview: Sabra Zoo – Mischa Hiller", A Common Reader, 12 February 2010
• "A novelist goes undercover", The Saudi Gazette, Susannah Tarbush

• 21st-century British novelists
• Living people
• 1962 births
• British male novelists
• 21st-century British male writers