David Hinton
David Hinton is an American poet and translator who specializes in Chinese literature and poetry, including Taoist and Buddhist classics. His poems and writing normally focuses on art, nature, Tao, and Chan Buddhism.
David Hinton
- Name
- David Hinton
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- Cornell University
- Awards
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1997) PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2007)
- Born
- 1954
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · PEN Award for Poetry in Translation · Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Languages
- English
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David Hinton is an American poet and translator who specializes in Chinese literature and poetry, including Taoist and Buddhist classics. His poems and writing normally focuses on art, nature, Tao, and Chan Buddhism.
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• Name — David Hinton • Occupation — * Poet • translator • Education — Cornell University • Awards — Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1997) PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2007) • Website — https: www.davidhinton.net
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Hinton was born in Utah. He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan. He lives in East Calais, Vermont.
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* * * * * * * * * * * * • Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994) * * • The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. New Directions Publishing. 2006. * * *
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David Hinton is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
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1954
David Hinton born.
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• 1997 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award • fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation • fellowship from the Ingram Merrill Foundation • fellowship National Endowment for the Arts • fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities. • 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship • 2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation • 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Thorton Wilder Award for Translation
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