Biography
Nicholas Hogg was born in Leicester, UK in 1974.
After graduating from the University of East London with a psychology degree, he travelled widely, living in Japan, Fiji and the United States.
In 2005, he was named winner of the £5,000 New Writing Ventures award for fiction, with Zen — as covered by the Guardian Online, and The Tokyo Catfish, a love story set in the aftermath of a Tokyo earthquake, was a prizewinner in the London Writers contest.
In 2007, Paradise, which follows two stowaway children from the tarmac of Mombassa airport to the 2012 London Olympics, earned runner up honours in the 2007 Willsden Herald Short Story competition, adjudicated by Zadie Smith.
His first novel, Show Me the Sky, was published in 2008.
Nicholas Hogg is currently researching a third novel.
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