Congratulations to Isabella Hammad, who has won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize for her novel ENTER GHOST (Grove Press, 2023)! The Aspen Words Prize is annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.
The Aspen Words jury shared the following about ENTER GHOST:
“In elegant, nuanced prose, Isabella Hammad tells the story of Sonia Nasir, a stage actress living in London who returns to her homeland of Palestine to visit her sister, Haneen, after many years away and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Exploring themes of diaspora, displacement, and the search for identity, Hammad constructs a world rich in texture and emotion. A poignant narrative of resilience and the quest for belonging, Enter Ghost is a dazzling story of self-discovery against the backdrop of displacement.”
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