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George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

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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." The prize was created in 2004 by Alan Twigg, publisher of BC Book World, along with John Lent of Okanagan College and Ken Smedley, then working for the George Ryga Centre Society. In 2014 Alan Twigg took over responsibility for the award after the sale of Ryga House. Originally the prize included a sculpture/plaque by sculptor, Reg Kienast, entitled The Censor's Golden Rope. Now it includes a cash award of $2,500.

Nominees and winners

Year Winner Finalists
2004
Judge: Craig McLuckie 		Blue ribbon Maggie De Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
  • Marie Clements, Burning Vision
  • Matt Hern, Field Day: Getting Society Out of School
  • Patricia E. Roy, The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
2005
Judge: Ross Tyner 		Blue ribbon Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
2006
Judge: Myrna Kotash 		Blue ribbon Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
  • Jean Barman, Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
  • Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia
2007
Judge: Sharon Josephson 		Blue ribbon Harold Rhenisch, The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
2008
Judge: Ivan Townshend 		Blue ribbon Leilah Nadir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family
2009
Judge: Ivan Townshend 		Blue ribbon Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
2010
Judge: Greg Simison 		Blue ribbon Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
2011
Judge: Andrew Steeves 		Blue ribbon Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
  • Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City: Photographs of Gabor Gasztonyi
  • Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
  • Benjamin Perrin, Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking
  • John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
2012 No award presented
2013
Judge: Angie Abdou 		Blue ribbon Joel Bakan, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children
  • Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
  • Howard White, A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
2014
Judge: Sean Johnston 		Blue ribbon Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
2015
Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp 		Blue ribbon Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
  • Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
  • Ann Rogers and John Hill, Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security
2016
Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, George Johnson 		Blue ribbon Andrew MacLeod, A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia''
2017
Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, Beverley Cramp 		Blue ribbon Wade Davis, Wade Davis: Photographs
2018
 Blue ribbon Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction''
2019
 Blue ribbon Rod Mickleburgh, On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement''
2020
 Blue ribbon Diane Pinch, Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia''
2021
 Blue ribbon Geoff Mynett, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician''
  • Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of B.C.
  • Emma Hansen, Still: Love, Loss, and Motherhood
  • Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
  • Maureen Webb, Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
2022
 Blue ribbon Alexandra Morton, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon''

References

  1. The George Ryga Award
  2. Ryga, George. "George Ryga Award Overview". BC Book Awards. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. Ware, Grahame. "George Ryga Award: The Okanagan Years".
  4. ^ "George Ryga Award Winners". BC Book Awards. Pacific BookWorld News Society. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
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