William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian

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and translator. A

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for the class of 1986, Hine was the editor of ''

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'' from 1968 to 1978. He graduated from

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in 1958 and then studied in Europe, as a

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scholar. He earned a

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at the

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(UC) in 1967. During his career, Hine taught at UC, the

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, and

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Life

Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in

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. He was the adopted son of Robert Fraser and Elsie James Hine. He attended

in Montreal 1954–58. His first

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, ''The Carnal and the Crane'', was published as part of

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's McGill Poetry Series in 1957.Steve Smith
(discussion), LeonardCohenForum.com, Web, May 6, 2011. Hine then went to Europe on a Canada Council scholarship, where he lived for the next three years. He moved to New York in 1962 and to Chicago in 1963, taking a PhD in Comparative Literature at the

in 1967. He taught there and at

and at University of Illinois (Chicago campus) during the following decades, while he served as an editor. Editor of

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, from 1968 to 1978, his correspondence from that time is held at

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. He was awarded a

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in 1986. Hine's work appeared in ''the New York Review of Books'', ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Tamarack Review'', ''The Paris Review''. The poet first came out as

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in his 1975 work ''In & Out'', which was initially available only in a privately printed version in limited circulation. The work did not gain general publication until 1989. Following the death of his partner of more than 30 years, the philosopher

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, Hine lived in semi-retirement in

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. Hine died of complications of a blood disorder on August 20, 2012, at the age of 76.

Awards

* 2005

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

* 1986

MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 50 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.0 billion and p ...

Fellow * 1980

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Works

* (novel) * (nonfiction) *

Poetry

* * * * * * * * (privately printed, 1975) * * * * * (Knopf (New York, NY), 1991) * * * *

Plays

* A Mutual Flame (radio play), BBC, 1961. * The Death of Seneca, produced in Chicago, 1968. * Alcestis (radio play), BBC, 1972.

Translations

* * * (And author of commentary) Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams, Atheneum, 1982. * * *

References

External links

"Dictionary of Literary Biography on (William) Daryl Hine"

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