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  1. Sheila Watson

    Canadian writer

    Sheila Martin Watson was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher. She "is best known for her modernist novel, The Double Hook." The Canadian Encyclopedia declares that: "Publication of Watson's novel The Double Hook marks the start of contemporary writing in Canada." Wikipedia

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    12815 Authors in Database ... Sheila Watson's first novel in 1959, The Double Hook, is renowned in Canadian literature as a breakthrough into modernity. It was also the first title in McClelland & Stewart's new original paperback series designed by Frank Newfield. Prompted by her experiences as a teacher in the community of Dog Creek near ...
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    Sheila Martin Watson (24 October 1909 - 1 February 1998) was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher. [1] She "is best known for her modernist novel, The Double Hook ." [ 2 ] The Canadian Encyclopedia declares that: "Publication of Watson's novel The Double Hook (1959) marks the start of contemporary writing in Canada."
  5. canadian-writers.athabascau.ca

    The uncollected prose of Sheila Watson was published in a special number of the journal Open Letter in 1975, the year she retired from teaching. Her novel, Deep Hollow Creek, written in the 1930s was published in 1992. After Wilfred Watson retired in 1976 they moved to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Both Sheila and Wilfred Watson died there in 1998.
  6. literarysphere.com

    Jul 18, 2024Canadian literature, ... The 19th century saw regionalism and patriotic themes in literature, with writers like Thomas McCulloch and Oliver Goldsmith celebrating pioneer life. Immigrants' experiences were depicted by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill. ... 23. Sheila Watson - The Double Hook (1959) 24. Ethel Wilson - Swamp Angel (1954) 25 ...
  7. Author of Red Dust, Red Sky and The Lions. Includes details of his published novels, his current fiction writing projects, as well as his international development profile. Home > Arts > Literature > World Literature > Canadian > Authors > Novelists
  8. thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

    Arts . Birth of Sheila Watson. ... The novel won the 1993 Canadian Authors Association Novel of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Prize for Canadian and Caribbean Region, and the 1994 Trillium Award. ... He had been a prominent figure on the Canadian art scene since the Second World War, during which he served as a war artist. He was perhaps ...
  9. canadian-writers.athabascau.ca

    Bibliography of Works about the Author; Sheila Watson. Bibliography of Works by the Author; Bibliography of Works about the Author; ... [Watson], Sheila. "Rough Answer." The Canadian Forum 18. 212 (Sept. 1938): 178-80. ... An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Vol. II. Ed. Donna Bennett and Russell Brown.
  10. sites.ualberta.ca

    Sheila Doherty Watson (1909-1998) She wrote one of the most inspiring Canadian novels of the 20th century, but Sheila Watson hesitated to call herself a writer. Only three short stories appeared before the publication of her revolutionary work The Double Hook , and just one other novel (written earlier) and several short stories would follow.
  11. Canadian novelist, born in New Westminster near Vancouver, educated at the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto.Her doctorate, on Wyndham Lewis, was supervised by Marshall McLuhan.Watson's experience teaching in the Cariboo region of the British Columbia interior provided the basis for her highly acclaimed novel The Double Hook (1959), sometimes described as the first modern Canadian ...
  12. penguinrandomhouse.com

    Sheila Watson was born in New Westminster, B.C., in 1909. After studying at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, she moved to Calgary in the 1950s, where she wrote much of her novel The Double Hook.In 1961, with colleagues at the University of Alberta, she founded and edited White Pelican, an avant-garde journal of literature and the visual arts.
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