Hannah Lillith Assadi is the author of the Women’s Prize longlisted novel Paradiso 17, inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father. Her debut novel Sonora received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells was named a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. She is the co-editor of an anthology of poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, which will be published by Everyman’s Library/Knopf in November 2026. In 2018, she was named a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.
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