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Isabella Hammad
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Isabella Hammad

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Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. She has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and has been awarded the RSL Encore Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation. In 2023, she was included as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

Books by Isabella Hammad

Enter Ghost

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine

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Recognising the Stranger

An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative

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The Parisian

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith)

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