Recognition
Watson was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1984.
The third epigraph of Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood's 2000 novel The Blind Assassin reads:
| “ | The word is a flame burning in a dark glass. – Sheila Watson | ” |
According to Nathalie Cooke, this is from Deep Hollow Creek, and it announces Atwood's third dominant theme, the power of the word itself.
A biography, Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson by F.T. Flahiff was published in 2005.
The University of St. Michael’s College held a two-day event, "Celebrating Sheila," on October 24 and 25, 2009, to mark the 100th anniversary of Watson’s birth and the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Double Hook.
Sheila Watson is mentioned in about 1,800 books.
Read more about this topic: Sheila Watson (writer)
Famous quotes containing the word recognition:
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Democracy and equality try to deny ... the mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)