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- Q5544134 abstract "George Ryga (27 July 1932 – 18 November 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist.Ryga was born in Deep Creek (54°57'N,113°13'W) near Athabasca, Alberta to poor Ukrainian immigrant parents. Unable to continue his schooling past grade six, he worked at a variety of jobs, including radio copywriter. Ryga continued to study, taking correspondence courses, and winning a scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts. In 1955, he travelled to Europe, where he attended the World Assembly for Peace in Helsinki and worked for the BBC. The following year he returned to Canada. While living in Edmonton, he published his first book, Song of My Hands (1956), a collection of poems.Ryga's first play, Indian, was performed on television in 1961. He achieved national exposure with The Ecstasy of Rita Joe in 1967. The work, considered by many to be the most important English-language play by a Canadian playwright, is the story of a young native woman arriving in the city who finds that she has no place with either her own people or the white man. It was performed in Vancouver, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and in Washington State. In 1971, the work was performed as a ballet by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.Other plays by Ryga include: Captives of the Faceless Drummer - 1971 Sunrise on Sarah - 1972 Portrait of Angelica - 1973 Ploughmen of the Glacier - 1977 In the Shadow of the Vulture - 1985 Paracelsus - 1986 Summerland - 1992He made a significant contribution to popular music when he wrote lyrics for a series of songs composed by the members of the Vancouver-based band The Collectors for the soundtrack of his 1969 play Grass and Wild Strawberries. Early Morning, the single release from the resulting Grass & Wild Strawberries album, became a minor local hit, and the showstopping album track Seventeenth Summer was re-recorded by the band after it underwent a membership change and changed its name to Chilliwack. The distinctive track, strongly influenced by First Nations musical forms, became a signature tune in live shows by Chilliwack for many years afterward.He died in Summerland, British Columbia in 1987. His home has been turned into the George Ryga Centre, an arts and culture centre.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.".
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- Q5544134 comment "George Ryga (27 July 1932 – 18 November 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist.Ryga was born in Deep Creek (54°57'N,113°13'W) near Athabasca, Alberta to poor Ukrainian immigrant parents. Unable to continue his schooling past grade six, he worked at a variety of jobs, including radio copywriter. Ryga continued to study, taking correspondence courses, and winning a scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts.".
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