Helen Knott and Wayne McCrory have been named co-winners of the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, Knott for Becoming a Matriarch (Knopf Canada) and McCrory for his book, Wild Horses of the Chilcotin (Harbour Publishing).
The winners will share the $2,500 prize.
The award will be presented at an event at the Vancouver Public Library in June, along with presentation of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award to William Gibson.
The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness is awarded annually to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a book published in the preceding calendar year. The prize is sponsored by Yosef Wosk, The Writers Trust of Canada, BC BookWorld, and the Vancouver Public Library.
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