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
- The Swing in the Garden (1975)
- A New Athens (1977)
- Reservoir Ravine (1979)
- Black and White Keys (1982)
- The Scenic Art (1984)
- The Motor Boys in Ottawa (1986)
- Tony's Book (1988)
- Property & Value (1990)
- Be Sure to Close Your Eyes (1993)
- Dead Men's Watches (1995)
- Great Realizations (1997)
- 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.
External links
- The Isolation Booth
- Special Collections HUGH HOOD Archived 2005-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Hugh Hood entry at The Canadian Encyclopedia Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Hugh Hood entry at Knowledgerush
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).