NEW YORK (JTA) – Author Molly Antopol has been named winner of Hadassah Magazine’s 2015 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction.

Antopol, author of the short-story collection The UnAmericans, will be honored at a ceremony in New York on Dec. 1. The prize has been awarded annually for the past 31 years to authors who create “an outstanding work of fiction on a Jewish theme,” according to a news release issued by Hadassah.

The UnAmericans, Antopol’s debut story collection, explores the “everyday anxieties and complex past lives” of immigrant characters in various locales, the news release says. It was one of three books nominated for this year’s Ribalow Prize. The other nominees were The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer and The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis. The independent panel of judges for the prize consisted of Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday; 2014 Ribalow Award winner Helene Wecker, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.

The UnAmericans also won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation.