Tobias Hill

1970–2023

Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, north London, and studied at the University of Sussex before spending two years teaching in Japan. He published poetry collections including Year of the Dog and Zoo, and the story collection Skin. His first novel, Underground, set on the London Underground, received a Betty Trask Award in 1998. His later novels were The Love of Stones (2001), The Cryptographer (2003) and The Hidden (2009), and he was the Sunday Telegraph’s rock critic for some years. A stroke in 2014 ended his writing career, and he died of glioblastoma in August 2023.

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