Williams, Hamish

Hamish Williams grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, “in a cottage ‘neath the mountain,” as his school song proudly declared, and a stone’s throw from the sea too. He has spent a good few years wandering through the mythical lands of Minoan Crete, Troy, Atlantis, and Middle-earth from the safety of his desk; still, he has been known to leave his hobbit hole (now located in Groningen, the northernmost part of the Netherlands) for some occasional adventures.

Hamish is a lecturer in Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The first book in his Tales from Basthinia fantasy series, The Southern Tide, was published in 2021 by De Wereld Leest (then known as ‘Ranger’). The second book in the series, Under the Green Cloud, was published in 2025. He has also published several non-fiction works, including Tolkien and the Classical World (2021, Walking Tree Publishers), The Ancient Sea (2022, Liverpool University Press), and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics (2023, Bloomsbury). Apart from teaching and writing, Hamish enjoys walking around the town, listening to podcasts about various topics in science and philosophy, and watching arthouse movies with his wife, Ksenia.

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