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.

Life

Hinton was born in Utah. He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan. He lives in East Calais, Vermont.

Awards

• 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

Works

Translations

• Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994)

• The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. New Directions Publishing. 2006.

Author

Editor

References

External links

• "Author's website"