Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad is a British-Palestinian author.[1] She was born in London, England[2] and lives in Brooklyn New York, US. She studied at Oxford University and Harvard University.[3]

Awards and honors

2018, Plimpton Prize for Fiction[2]
2019, O. Henry Prize for short story[2]
2019, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, "5 Under 35" honoree[2]
2019, Palestine Book Award[2][3]
2020, Sue Kaufman Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters[2]
2020, Betty Trask Award, Society of Authors in the UK[2]
2020, Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship

Books

The Parisian (Jonathan Cape, December 2019)[4][5]
Enter Ghost (Grove Press, April 2023)[6]

References

Khatib, Joumana (4 April 2019). "A Debut Novelist Explores Her Family's History, and Palestine's" – via NYTimes.com.
"Isabella Hammad". www.brown.edu. Brown University, Literary Arts Program. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
Guardian Staff (13 January 2019). "Meet the hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019". The Guardian.
Benfey, Christopher (12 April 2019). "A Novel Whose Hero Is a Man Divided, as Is His Native Palestine" – via NYTimes.com.
"The Parisian by Isabella Hammad review – Middlemarch with minarets". The Guardian. 15 April 2019.
Enter Ghost | Grove Atlantic.

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