Terry Watada
Terry Watada is a Toronto writer with many productions and publications to his credit. His publications include The Four Sufferings (poetry), Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (novel), Crows at Sunset (poetry), The Three Pleasures (novel), The Nishga Girl (children's fiction), Light at a Window (manga), The Game of 100 Ghosts (poetry), The Sword, the Medal and the Rosary (manga), The TBC: the Toronto Buddhist Church 1995-2010 (history), Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (novel), Obon: the Festival of the Dead (poetry), Ten Thousand Views of Rain (poetry), Seeing the Invisible (a children’s biography), Daruma Days (short fiction), Bukkyo Tozen: a History of Buddhism in Canada (history) and A Thousand Homes (poetry). He contributed a monthly column for 25 years in the Nikkei Voice, a national journal. In 2012, he began a regular column for the Vancouver Bulletin after it expanded to a national publication.
For his writing, music and community volunteerism, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the NAJC's National Merit Award in 2013. He received in 2014 the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award, an honour given every two years by the National Association of Japanese Canadians.
Ronsdale books by Terry Watada