Jack Hodgins

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Jack Hodgins ( OC ) (born October 3, 1938 in Comox , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and university professor who is not only widely celebrated by North American literary criticism and who is the Governor General's for the novel The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne in 1979 Award for Fiction and his historical novel Broken Ground , which shortly after the end of world war plays in 1999 to the BC Book Prizes belongingEthel Wilson Fiction Prize . Jack Hodgins is considered to be one of the main exponents of Canadian magical realism in the context of post-colonial discourse.

Life

John Stanley Hodgins was born in 1938 in Comox Valley , British Columbia, to the Irish settlers Stanley and Reta Hodgkins and grew up in the small town of Merville. He left his hometown and moved to Vancouver , where he studied English and education at the University of British Columbia from 1957 - encouraged by Earle Birney - and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in education in 1960 . That year he got married too. Hodgins spent the next 18 years of his career teaching English at Nanaimo High School on Vancouver Island .

In 1968 his first literary work was accepted for publication. With the publication of his first collection of short stories, Spit Delaney's Island (1976) and his first novel, The Invention of the World (1977), Hodgins was well on the way to being recognized as a writer in Canada's literary world. The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne finally marked a turning point in his work. He took a sabbatical from teaching for a year and moved with his family to Ottawa , where he worked as writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa . After the novel won the Governor General's Literary Award for English Language Fiction in 1979, Hodgins began to explore the possibilities of his writing.

From then on, he accepted short-term teaching positions at various Canadian universities, including at Simon Fraser University . His passion for teaching has taken him around the world, he has worked as a lecturer in Australia , Germany , Finland , Japan and Spain, among others . In 1983 he accepted a professorship in creative writing at the University of Victoria . He and his family then settled in Victoria and stayed there after he retired from college in 2002.

Occasionally, Jack Hodgins continues to teach creative writing and leads an annual workshop in Mallorca .

Hodgin was highly valued in his home country and received various awards, including the Eaton's BC Book Award for Spit Delaney's Island , the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence 2006 and the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2001 various short stories from his book The Barclay Family Theater were adapted for the theater stage. The resulting piece was in turn arranged as an opera by the composer Christopher Donnison and premiered on the stage in Victoria. His life's work was honored by a National Film Board film production entitled Jack Hodgins' Island .

The content of his books is based on his close relationship with his living environment and his personal experiences with the temperate rainforests and the coasts of British Columbia. Places like Comox Valley, Nanaimo and Victora, or those of his travels, influenced his writing and the context of his books. His characters in Innocent Cities are based on actual people who lived in Victoria around 1900, as well as personalities he met on his travels in Australia. The Invention of the World is based on the legendary cult leader Brother Twelve and his disciples from outside Nanaimo. The quirks charm. whose action takes place around 1956, shows the Comox Valley and its inhabitants, who were inspired by real living personalities from the author's environment. The different locations of Spit Delaney's Island. are all based on places he lived or learned to appreciate on his travels.

Concerning his first novel, The Invention of the World , Heinzjörg Gehring judged: “Hodgins' departure from the realistic narrative tradition of Canada, which connects him with Robert Kroetsch (...), is not radical. His book also lives from the ironic allusions to concrete Canadian sensitivities: tolerance in a multi-ethnic state, naive need for a "usable past", the treatment of the natives, and generally the tiresome search for a Canadian identity. "

In 2009 Jack Hodgin was named a Member of the Order of Canada .

He is currently working with his student Gail Anderson-Dargatz on a joint novel, The Edge , about an accident at a fictional Canadian university.

The screenwriter friend of his, Hart Hanson, created with the character of the entomologist Dr. Jack Hodgins in the Fox Network television series Bones - The Bone Hunter , who is portrayed on screen by TJ Thyne , a mere external tribute, as the two personalities have nothing in common.

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Novels
  • The Invention of the World. 1977.
  • The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne. Macmillan of Canada, Toronto 1979
  • The Honorary Patron. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1987.
  • Innocent Cities. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1990
  • The quirks charm. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1995
  • Broken Ground. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1998
  • Distance. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2003
  • The Master of Happy Endings. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2010. (Shortlist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize )
Short stories
  • Spit Delaney's Island. 1976
  • By The River
  • The Barclay Family Theater. 1981.
  • Change of Scenery , in Small wonders: New stories by twelve distinguished Canadian writers . Edited by Robert Weaver . CBC , Toronto 1982; Anansi Press, 1998, pp. 33-41
    • Übers. Elfi Schneidbach: Change of scenery. In Columbus and the giant lady. Short stories from Canada. Structure AtV, Berlin 1992, pp. 200–215
  • Damage Done by the Storm. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2005
Children's books
  • Left Behind in Squabble Bay. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1988
Non-fiction
  • Voice and Vision. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1972
  • as editor: The Frontier Experience . Macmillan of Canada, Toronto 1975
  • as editor: The West Coast Experience . Macmillan of Canada, Toronto 1976
  • Over Forty in Broken Hill. Unusual Encounters in the Australian Outback. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1992. (Travel report about Australia)
  • A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1994
Anthologies
  • Teaching short fiction. Edited with Bruce Nesbitt, ComCept Publishing
  • Voice and Vision. Edited with WH New, McClelland and Stewart
  • The Frontier Experience. Macmillan of Canada, 1975
  • The West Coast Experience. Macmillan of Canada, 1976
  • BEGINNINGS: samplings from a long apprenticeship: novels which were imagined, written, re-written, rejected, abandoned, and supplanted

Grand Union Press, Toronto 1983

Periodicals

his short stories have appeared in the following magazines in Canada, France , Australia, and the United States over the years :

  • Northwest Review
  • Antigonish Review
  • Wascana Review
  • Descant (Texas)
  • Capilano Review
  • Prism: international
  • Paris Intercontinental
  • Saturday night
  • Vancouver
  • Westerly
  • story
  • Toronto Life
  • North American Review
  • Event
  • Canadian Fiction Magazine
  • Sound Heritage
  • alphabet
  • Viva
  • Journal of Canadian Fiction
  • The Canadian Forum
  • Forum (Houston)
  • Iceland No.2
  • Meanjin
  • The Literary Half-yearly
  • Overland

Awards, nominations and honors

  • 1973: "After the Season": the President's Medal, University of Western Ontario
  • 1977: Spit Delaney's Island: Shortlist for the Governor General's Award
  • 1977: Spit Delaney's Island: the Eaton's BC Book Award
  • 1978: The Invention of the World: Shortlist for Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1978: The Invention of the World: the Gibson's First Novel Award
  • 1979: The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: The Governor General's Award for Fiction
  • 1986: The Canada-Australia prize
  • 1988: The Honorary Patron: the Commonwealth Literature Prize (Canada-Caribbean region)
  • 1988: The Honorary Patron: Shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor
  • 1995: Honorary D. Litt, University of British Columbia
  • 1996: "Finding Merville": (Comox Valley Record) 1st place at the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing.
  • 1998: Honorary D. Litt, Malaspina University-College
  • 1999: Broken Ground: The Drummer General Award (Different Drummer Bookstore)
  • 1999: Broken Ground: jury choice as "best novel of the year" in Quill & Quire
  • 1999: Broken Ground: "top ten" in The Globe and Mail
  • 1999: elected to the Royal Society of Canada
  • 2000: Broken Ground: Torgi Talking Book of the Year
  • 1999: Broken Ground: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • 2000: Broken Ground: Longlist for the IMPAC / Dublin Award
  • 2004: Honorary D.Litt, University of Victoria
  • 2004: Distance: Shortlist for the inaugural City of Victoria book award
  • 2004: Distance: long-listed for the IMPAC / Dublin Award
  • 2006: Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
  • 2006: Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award "for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia"
  • 2009: Member of the Order of Canada

literature

  • David Jeffrey: Jack Hodgins and his Works . ECW Press, Toronto 1980
  • Annika Hannan (Ed.): Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works . 2007
  • Allan Pritchard: Jack Hodgins' Island: A Big Enough Country. In: University of Toronto Quarterly. 55.1, September 1985, pp. 21-44.
  • JR Struthers (Ed.): On Coasts of Eternity: Jack Hodgins' Fictional Universe. 1996
  • Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: The Invention of a Region: The Art of Fiction in Jack Hodgins' Stories. In: Robert Kroetsch, Reingard M. Nischik (Ed.): Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. NeWest, Edmonton 1985, pp. 186-191
  • Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: Recording Voices from the Past: The Reconstruction of History on the Pacific Rim in Jack Hodgins' Fiction. In: Bernd Engler, Kurt Muller (Ed.): Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, pp. 465-476

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Deringer: Regionalism and Universality in American and Canadian Literature: The Pacific Northwest as Model. In: Gunther Blaicher, Brigitte Glaser (Ed.): Anglistentag 1993 Eichstatt. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, pp. 350-360.
  2. ↑ Stephen Slemon: Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse. In: Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris (Eds.): Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Duke University Press, Durham, NC 1995, pp. 407-426.
  3. ^ John Thieme: Acknowledging Myths: The Image of Europe in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners and Jack Hodgins's The Invention of the World. In: Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 10.1, 14/1987, pp. 15-21.
  4. ↑ Cecelia Coulas Fink: If Words Won't Do, and Symbols Fail: Hodgins's Magic Reality. In: Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d'Etudes Canadiennes. 20.2, June 1985, pp. 118-131.
  5. ↑ a b nwpassages
  6. ^ G. Lernout: Creation Science and Jack Hodgins's The Invention of the World. In: Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis. 64.3, 1986, pp. 532-538.
  7. ↑ Major works of English literature. Volume 2: The 20th Century and New Literatures Outside England. Individual presentations and interpretations. Kindler's New Literature Lexicon , Munich 1995, p. 519
  8. ↑ a b Hodgins' site
  9. ↑ Unlimited editions
  10. ^ Susan Beckmann: Canadian Burlesque: Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World. In: Essays on Canadian Writing. No. 20, December 1980, pp. 106-125.
  11. ^ Jan C. Horner: Irish & Biblical Myth in Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World. In: Canadian Literature. No. 99, December 1983, pp. 6-18.
  12. ↑ Carol Long Light: The Counterfeit and the Real in Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World. Nordic Association for Canadian Studies / L'Association Nordique d'Études Canadiennes, Lund 1992.
  13. ^ Robert Lecker: Haunted by a Glut of Ghosts: Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World. In: Essays on Canadian Writing. No. 20, December 1980, pp. 86-105.
  14. ^ Joann McCaig: Brother XII and The Invention of the World. In: Essays on Canadian Writing. No. 28, March 1984, pp. 128-140.
  15. ↑ Laurence Steven: Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World & Robert Browning's' Abbot Vogler '. In: Canadian Literature. No. 99, December 1983, pp. 21-30.
  16. ^ John Thieme: Acknowledging Myths: The Image of Europe in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners and Jack Hodgins's The Invention of the World. In: Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 10.1, 14/1987, pp. 15-21.
  17. ^ Jo Ann McCaig: Lines and Circles: Structure in 'The Honorary Patron'. In: Canadian Literature. No. 128, March 1991, pp. 65-75
  18. ^ Jeanne Delbaere Garant: Isolation and Community in Jack Hodgins's Short Stories. In: Recherches Anglaises et Américaines. No. 16, 1983, pp. 31-44.
  19. ^ Jeanne Delbaere Garant: Magic Realism in Jack Hodgins's Short Stories. In: Recherches Anglaises et Nord Américaines. No. 20, 1987, pp. 41-49.
  20. ↑ Walter Zacharasiewicz: The Development of Jack Hodgins' Narrative Art in His Short Fiction. In: Franz K. Stanzel, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Ed.): Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1986, pp. 94-109.
  21. ↑ Simone Vauthier: Reader's Squint: An Approach to Jack Hodgins' The Barclay Family Theater. In: Reingard M. Nischik , Barbara Korte (Eds.): Modes of Narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1990, pp. 153-165
personal data
SURNAME Hodgins, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodgins, John Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and former university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Comox