Autore: James Hoggard

James Hoggard”s work in multiple genres has routinely been called “brilliant.” A poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist and translator, he is the author of twenty books and the recipient of numerous awards, including, in 2006, the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career. He has also been Poet Laureate of Texas and twice president of the Texas Institute of Letters. His novel Trotter Ross (Wings, 1999) was called “far and away the finest novel about masculine coming of age in current American literature” by Leonard Randolph, former director of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program. Writing about Patterns of Illusion: Short Stories & A Novella, the novelist John Nichols said, “Hoggard knows as much as anyone on earth about the small tender mercies and brutalities of people … a truly wonderful writer.” His collection of poems, Wearing The River (Wings, 2005), received the PEN Southwest Poetry Award. His most recent book is Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems (Wings, 2009). In addition to appearing in periodicals such as Harvard Review, Southwest Review, Words Without Borders, Manoa, TriQuarterly, Arts & Letters, Image, Massachusetts Review, Partisan Review, and many other journals and anthologies, his work has also appeared in India, England, Canada, and the Czech Republic. He’s given readings and lectures at universities throughout the U.S. as well as in Mexico, Cuba, and Iraq. A noted literary translator, Hoggard was chosen to give the University Professors Lecture On Literary Translation and Theory at Boston University. Hoggard is the Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.