The New American Voices Award
2025 New American Voices Award
On Thursday, October 9, 2025, Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) will host the 8th Annual IIR New American Voices Award. This year's three finalists include: Olufunke Grace Bankole’s The Edge of Water, Cristina Jiménez’s Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change, and Shubha Sunder’s Optional Practical Training: A Novel.
Past Winners
| Year | Author | Title | Finalists | |
| 2024 | Shahnaz Habib | Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel |
Carrie Sun: Private Equity: A Memoir Alex Espinoza: The Sons of El Rey |
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| 2023 | Rachel Heng | The Great Reclamation |
Angie Kim: Happiness Falls DK Nnuro: What Napoleon Could Not Do |
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| 2022 | Sindya Bhanoo | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere |
Aamina Ahmad: The Return of Faraz Ali Daphne Palasi Andreades: Brown Girls |
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| 2021 | Patricia Engel | Infinite Country |
Anthony Veasna So: Afterparties Daisy Hernández: The Kissing Bug |
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| 2020 | Lysley Tenorio | The Son of Good Fortune |
Ishmael Beah: Little Family Vanessa Hua: Deceit and Other Possibilities |
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| 2019 | Melissa Rivero | The Affairs of the Falcóns |
Eugenia Kim: The Kinship of Secrets Angie Kim: Miracle Creek |
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| 2018 | Hernán Díaz | In the Distance |
Elena Georgiou: The Immigrant’s Refrigerator Renee Macalino Rutledge: The Hour of Daydreams |
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