Hugh Hood

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Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC (b in Toronto, Ontario 30 April 1928 d in Montreal, Quebec 1 August 2000) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.

Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal. In the early 1970s he and fellow authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, John Metcalf and Ray Smith formed the well-known Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group, which popularized the public reading of fiction in Canada. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Novels

  • White Figure, White Ground (1964)
  • The Camera Always Lies (1967)
  • A Game of Touch (1970)
  • You Can't Get There From Here (1972)
  • Five New Facts about Giorgione (1987)

The New Age Series

  1. The Swing in the Garden (1975)
  2. A New Athens (1977)
  3. Reservoir Ravine (1979)
  4. Black and White Keys (1982)
  5. The Scenic Art (1984)
  6. The Motor Boys in Ottawa (1986)
  7. Tony's Book (1988)
  8. Property & Value (1990)
  9. Be Sure to Close Your Eyes (1993)
  10. Dead Men's Watches (1995)
  11. Great Realizations (1997)
  12. Near Water (2000)

Short stories

  • Flying a Red Kite (1962)
    • in German: Der rote Drachen, in Ernst Bartsch ed.: Die weite Reise. Kanadische Erzählungen und Kurzgeschichten. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1976, pp 135 – 149
  • Around the Mountain: Scenes from Montreal Life (1967)
  • Getting to Williamstown (1970)
    • in German: Unterwegs nach Williamstown. Akzente. Zeitschrift für Literatur. 23, 3, June 1976. Carl Hanser, Munich
  • The Fruit Man, The Meat Man & The Manager (1971)
  • Dark Glasses (1976)
  • Selected Stories (1978)
  • None Genuine Without This Signature (1980)
  • August Nights (1985)
  • A Short Walk in the Rain (1989)
  • The Isolation Booth (1991)
  • You'll Catch Your Death (1992)

Non-Fiction

  • Strength Down the Centre: The Jean Beliveau Story (1970)
  • The Governor's Bridge is Closed (1973)
  • Scoring: The Art of Hockey [Illus. Seymour Segal] (1979)
  • Unsupported Assertions (1992)

References

Lecker, Robert; David, Jack: The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume Five (by J.R. (Tim) Struthers), pp 231.

Further reading

  • Keith, W.J. Canadian Odyssey A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siècle (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002).

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