George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature is a literary award given to a British Columbian author "who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year."[1] The prize was established in 2004 by Alan Twigg and John Lent. It includes a cash award of $2,500.
Nominees and winners
Year | Winner | Finalists |
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2016 Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, George Johnson |
Andrew MacLeod, A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia'' |
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2015 Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp |
Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change |
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2014 Judge: Sean Johnston |
Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School |
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2013 Judge: Angie Abdou |
Joel Bakan, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children |
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2012 | No award presented | |
2011 Judge: Andrew Steeves |
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song |
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2010 Judge: Greg Simison |
Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future |
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2009 Judge: Ivan Townshend |
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo |
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2008 Judge: Ivan Townshend |
Leilah Nadir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family |
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2007 Judge: Sharon Josephson |
Harold Rhenisch, The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century |
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2006 Judge: Myrna Kotash |
Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver |
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2005 Judge: Ross Tyner |
Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey |
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2004 Judge: Craig McLuckie |
Maggie De Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister |
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References
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