Editing Jack Hodgins (section)

==Awards and honours==
*1973 "After the Season": the President's Medal, University of Western Ontario
*1977 ''Spit Delaney's Island'': the Eaton's B.C. Book Award
*1977 ''Spit Delaney's Island'': short listed for the Governor General's Award
*1978 ''The Invention of the World'': Gibson's First Novel Award
*1978 ''The Invention of the World'': shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award
*1979 ''The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne'': The [[Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction]]<ref name=BC/>
*1986 The [[Canada-Australia Prize]]
*1988 ''The Honorary Patron'': the Commonwealth Literature Prize (Canada-Caribbean region)
*1988 ''The Honorary Patron'': short listed for the [[Stephen Leacock Award for Humour]]
*1995 Honorary D.Litt., University of British Columbia
*1996 "Finding Merville": (Comox Valley Record) first place in Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing
*1998 Honorary D.Litt., Malaspina University-College
*1999 Elected to the [[Royal Society of Canada]]
*1999 ''Broken Ground'': in ''Globe and Mail'' Top Ten
*1999 ''Broken Ground'': jury choice as Best Novel of the Year in ''Quill and Quire''
*1999 ''Broken Ground'': The Drummer General Award (Different Drummer Bookstore)
*2000 ''Broken Ground'': the [[Ethel Wilson Prize]] for fiction in British Columbia
*2000 ''Broken Ground'': longlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin Award
*2000 ''Broken Ground'': the Torgi Talking Book of the Year
*2004 ''Distance'': longlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin Award
*2004 ''Distance'': shortlisted for the inaugural City of Victoria Book Award
*2004 Honorary [[D.Litt]], University of Victoria
*2006 Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award "for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia"
*2006 [[Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence]]
*2009 Member of the [[Order of Canada]]