Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad (born circa 1992) is a British-Palestinian author. In 2023, she was included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, identifying the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.

Hammad was born in London, England. She studied at Oxford University and Harvard University.

Hammad presently spends her time between London and New York City.

In 2019, Hammad was a National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honoree. The same year, The New York Times named The Parisian one of the Notable Books of the year, and The Guardian included Hammad on their list of the year's "writers of exceptional first novels". The Guardian describes her second book, Enter Ghost, as being "a story of Palestine, driven by questions of identity and belonging."

In 2020, she received a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, and in 2023, she was included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, identifying the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.

She has also received a Gerald Freund Fellowship from MacDowell and an Axinn Foundation Fellowship from New York University. She was a speaker at The Palestine Writes Literature Festival in Philadelphia, PA, on September 22, 2023. The event was held at the University of Pennsylvania.

• The Parisian (Jonathan Cape, December 2019)
• Enter Ghost (Grove Press, April 2023)