Salha Hamadin

Salha Hamadin is a Palestinian writer of the Jahalin Bedouin tribe. She lives in the West Bank.

In 2012, when she was 14 years old, her story Hantush won the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Personal life Hamadin is a Jahalin Bedouin living in Wadi Abu Hindi, in Area C of the West Bank.

She is the daughter of Souleiman, a prisoner in Israel. The lamb takes Salha to Spain where she meets football player Lionel Messi.

She wrote the story after encouragement at a workshop delivered by Italian organisation Vento Di Terra and the Tamer Institute for Community Education.