Hamish Williams

Hamish Williams is a lecturer in Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The first book in his Basthinia fantasy series, The Southern Tide, was published in 2021 by De Wereld Leest. He has also published several works for an academic readership, 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,...See more

Hamish Williams is a lecturer in Greek and Latin at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The first book in his Basthinia fantasy series, The Southern Tide, was published in 2021 by De Wereld Leest. He has also published several works for an academic readership, 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. See less