Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian, for which she received the 2019 Palestine Book Award in the Creative category and was a National Book Award 5 under 35 Honoree. She was also awarded the Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her short story Mr Can'aan and an O. Henry Prize. Her novel is being translated into fifteen languages and the Arabic version is forthcoming from Dar al-Tanweer in Cairo.