David Hinton is an American
poet
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, and translator who specializes in Chinese literature and poetry.
Life
He studied Chinese at
Cornell University
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, and in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. He lives in
East Calais, Vermont
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Awards
* 1997
Academy of American Poets
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 outreac ...
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 ...
* fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation
* fellowship from the
Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retriev ...
* fellowship National Endowment for the Arts
* fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities.
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2003
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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 ...
* 2007
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many ...
* 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Thorton Wilder Award for Translation
Works
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References
External links
"Author's website"
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male poets
Cornell University alumni
Chinese–English translators