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"It was forty years ago that Jack Hodgins started systematically
sending
stories to magazines. Thirty years ago, ten of those exquisite early
stories
were collected into a book that remains both an unforgettable portrait
of
British Columbia life and a literary classic: Spit Delaney's Island. In
novels such as The Invention of the World, the Resurrection of Joseph
Bourne
(which won him a Governor General's Award in 1979), The Barclay Family
Theatre, The Macken Charm and Broken Ground, Hodgins has continued
deepening
and broadening his multivolume, panoramic portrait of Vancouver Island
people, dwarfed by their own dreams and extravagant ambitions as much
as
they are by the trees in the old-growth forests. The marriage, in a
single
human being, of such acute perception, extravagant imagination and
personal
reserve makes Jack Hodgins himself as thoroughly unlikely yet as
absolutely
real as any of his characters. And no writer has done more than he to
give
British Columbia a place on the literary map of North America."
Jury Member Robert Bringhurst, for the Lieutenant Governor's Award
for Literary Excellence 2006
(photo of Jack Hodgins by Darren Stone,
Victoria Times Colonist)
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