Winners

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

2021 winner
Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

Publisher:

Interlinks books

Published:

November 2020
Sonia Nimr (Author); Marcia Lynx Qualey (Translator). Award-winning tales of a young woman whose travel adventures across perilous deserts, seas, and empires In a tent at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, hundreds of years ago, our storyteller...

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

2019 winner
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Author(s):

Noura Erakat

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Published:

April 2019
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement...

Against the Loveless World

2020 winner
Against the Loveless World

Author(s):

Susan Abulhawa

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Circus

Published:

July 2020
Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her...

Life in a Country Album

2020 winner
Life in a Country Album

Author(s):

Nathalie Handal

Publisher:

University Of Pittsburgh Press

Published:

October 2019
In in her seventh collection, award-winning poet Nathalie Handal reaffirms that she remains an urgent and singular voice in contemporary poetry. Linguistically fluid and geographically expansive, Nathalie Handal’s Life in a Country Album is...

The Parisian

2019 winner
The Parisan

Author(s):

Isabella Hammad

Publisher:

Jonathan Cape

Published:

April 2019
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself. Midhat Kamal navigates his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the...

Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel

2019 winner
Stone Men: The Palestinians who built Israel

Author(s):

Andrew Ross

Publisher:

Verso Books

Published:

March 2019
"They demolish our houses while we build theirs."This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some of the best-quality...

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • The revolution of 1936–1939 in palestine
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine Between Camp and Colony
  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • I Sing From the Window of Exile
  • Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity
  • Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
  • Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
  • Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
  • Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
  • Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said