A British-Palestinian author, her most recent work is Enter Ghost (Grove Press, 2023), a powerfully symbolic novel about a British-Palestinian actress who returns to Haifa to take on the challenge of staging Hamlet in the West Bank, navigating the dilemmas of identity in a tense sociopolitical context.
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Sunday 26 October, 17.30 - 18.45
Hamlet in Palestine
Born in London, Isabella Hammad studied literature at the University of Oxford, at Harvard University and New York University; she currently spends most of her time in New York City. Included on the prestigious National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” and GRANTA lists as one of the best young storytellers in the English language, her work explores themes such as diaspora, identity, uprooting and memory.
Her literary debut, The Parisian (Jonathan Cape, 2019), awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, was inspired by her great-grandfather and tells the story of a young Palestinian in France during World War I and his return to Palestine at a time of national ebullience. She is also the author of the essay Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (Grove Press, 2024) about the importance of the narrative we construct surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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