Isabella Hammad
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Isabella Hammad is a British-Palestinian novelist whose work explores history, displacement, identity, and the complexities of Palestinian life. Born in London to a Palestinian father and a British mother, she studied English literature at Oxford University before earning an MFA from New York University. Her debut novel, The Parisian (2019), follows a Palestinian man navigating the political and cultural transformations of the early twentieth century. The book won the Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Enter Ghost (2023), received the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Hammad has also received prestigious literary fellowships and was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Paris Review and The New York Times.
