Sheila Watson

Sheila Watson (nee Doherty) (1939-1998) was a writer, teacher, and English professor best known for her novel The Double Hook (1959), which has been called the first modernist Canadian novel. Watson also published Deep Hollow Creek (1992), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award. She wrote several collections of short stories and co-founded the literary magazine White Pelican.

Sheila Watson. Photographer unknown.

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George Bowering introduces Sheila Watson.

January 1, 2020

This clip of a longer tape consists of George Bowering introducing Sheila Watson as a guest speaker in his class at SFU, October 6, 1982. He positions Watson not only as being central to the Canadian literary canon, but also as a substantive innovator in the ways that she approaches fiction writing. He further suggests…
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George Bowering introduces Sheila Watson.

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