Recognizing the Stranger

Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad was recently interviewed by Anthony Cummins for the Guardian.

Was there a book that first made you want to write?

I have a memory as a child of carrying around a very tatty Penguin collection of surrealist poetry, with a painting on the cover of a blue woman with a butterfly on her face. I remember being very taken by a poem that described waves breaking on a shore like eggshells. If by “wanting to write” you mean that impulse to play with language, it was probably these quite literary books for grownups that I came across and only half-understood that first gave me that feeling.”

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