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:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.””
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)
“The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)