From the award website:
Hernán Díaz, Elena Georgiou, and Renee Macalino Rutledge have been named finalists for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award, a post-publication book prize created to recognize work that illuminates the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.
Díaz, Georgiou, and Macalino Rutledge will attend the award ceremony on Thursday, October 11 at George Mason University, where the winner will be announced.
The book prize was judged by Helon Habila, Madeleine Thien, and Maaza Mengiste. About Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GPB 2018), Judge Habila writes:
The Immigrant’s Refrigerator is a collection of thirteen elegantly crafted stories, each of them structured around the themes of migration and the search for a new life in a new land. Georgiou explores in exquisite detail and haunting images her characters’ drive to seek meaning and acceptance in a world that is often distrustful of the “other”. The chaos of New York city, where most of the stories are set, gives the collection a greater poignance; the city becomes a maze where all the characters, both native and migrant, become equal in their desperate search for love and meaning in a world often devoid of both.
GenPop Books congratulates all the finalists, and we thank the judges as well as everyone at Fall for the Book. For more information, please visit the website for the New American Voices Award.
