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Longlist announced for George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature 2018

News Bites • February 15, 2018 • Monica Miller

The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year. 

This year the 14th annual George Ryga Award competition has attracted a record number of entries – 52 titles – judged by Vancouver Public Library – Joe Fortes Branch library head Jane Curry; author and professor Trevor Carolan; and freelance journalist and art critic Beverly Cramp.

Here is the 2018 longlist for the 14th annual George Ryga Award:

  • Susan BoydBusted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada (Fernwood, 2017)
  • David DoyleLouis Riel: Let Justice Be Done (Ronsdale, 2017)
  • Gary GeddesMedicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017)
  • Monique Gray SmithSpeaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (Orca Book Publishers, 2017)
  • Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. IgnaceSecwépemc People, Land, and Laws (McGill-Queens, 2017)
  • Travis LupickFighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017)
  • Arthur Manuel with Grand Chief Ronald DerricksonThe Reconciliation Manifesto (Lorimer, 2017)
  • Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books, 2017)
  • Howard Macdonald StewartViews of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing, 2017)
  • David Suzuki and Ian HaningtonJust Cool It! The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do (Greystone Books, 2017)

The George Ryga Award is sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society, Yosef Wosk, and Vancouver Public Library. The award will be presented at a ceremony in June.