Congratulations to Elena Dudum for becoming a 2024 LANDO grantee for her nonfiction work, I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful.
I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful explores how the inheritance of the Palestinian refugee experience shapes Palestinians in the diaspora and how they understand homeland, citizenship, and identity.
“Edward Said said that Palestinians have been denied “permission to narrate.” This remains true. As a Palestinian-American with refugee grandparents who fled Palestine in 1948, I’d like to change this.”
An exciting update from Elena: “I have signed with an agent and am working on the proposal for my memoir and hope to have it out on submission later this year!”
Learn more about the 2024 LANDO Grantees
