culture centre, which existed until 2012 when it closed due to financial challenges. It is now in private hands. Recognition A biography, The Ecstasy of Resistance, by James Hoffman, was published in 1995. Since 2004, the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature has been presented to a British Columbian writer who has published a book with significant social themes. The 2021 recipient was Geoff Mynett. A wall plaque to commemorate George Ryga was installed in the newly-opened Summerland Library in October of 2015. In 2016 the Ryga Arts Festival, inspired by George Ryga, was started in Summerland and so far has continued through 2021. In 2020, a George Ryga archive was established at the Summerland Museum. Bibliography Song of My Hands. 1956 Hungry Hills. 1963 Ballad of a Stone-Picker. 1966 The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. 1970 The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays. 1971 Sunrise on Sarah - 1973 Night Desk. 1976 Ploughman of the Glacier. 1977 Seven Hours to Sundown. 1977 Beyond the Crimson Morning. 1979 Two Plays: Paracelsus and Prometheus Bound. 1982 A Portrait of Angelica & A Letter to My Son. 1984 In the Shadow of the Vulture. 1985 The Athabasca Ryga - 1990 Summerland. 1992 George Ryga: The Other Plays. 2004 (edited by James Hoffman) George Ryga: The Prairie Novels. 2004 (edited by James Hoffman) Further reading Subhash Chander: Canadian nationalism and George Ryga, a postcolonial perspective. Critique of Canadian nationalism in the plays of George Ryga. Lambert Academic Publishing LAP, Saarbrücken 2011 Weronika Suchacka: "Za Hranetsiu" – "Beyond the Border". Constructions of Identities in Ukrainian‐Canadian Literature. (SALC Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) Wißner, Augsburg 2019 (about A Letter to My Son p 219-223) Film 2009 - Hungry Hills2018 - Just a Ploughboy: A film about George Ryga'', written and directed by Gina Payzant Reel Mensch Studios, Edmonton, AB, Canada. References Further reading External links George Ryga & Associates , entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia Ryga, item at Athabasca University, English-Canadian Writers, by Joseph J. Pivato Ryga archives at University of Calgary Ryga Festival Society 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian novelists Canadian male novelists 1932 births 1987 deaths Canadian people of Ukrainian descent Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian male writers