David Hinton

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

• 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

Translations

• David Hinton (April 19, 2009). "Poet's Choice 'Drinking Wine' by T'ao Ch'ien". The Washington Post.
• "Overnight at Stone-gate Cliffs". Smith College. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
• Mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China. New Directions Publishing. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8112-1624-1.
• The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun. New Directions. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8112-1489-6. David Hinton.
• Laozi, Lao zi, Lao-tzu (2000). Tao Te Ching. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-047-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• The selected poems of Po Chü-I. New Directions Publishing. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8112-1412-4.
• Mencius. Basic Books. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58243-020-1.
• The Analects of Confucius. Counterpoint. 1998. ISBN 978-1-58243-038-6.
• Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters. Publishers Group West. 1997. ISBN 978-1-887178-34-1.
• The Selected Poems of Lí Po. New Directions. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8112-1323-3. David Hinton.
• Bei Dao (1996). Landscape Over Zero. New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-1334-9.
• The Late Poems of Meng Chiao. Princeton University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-691-01236-0.
• Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994)
• The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-056-6.
• The Selected Poems of Tu Fu. New Directions Publishing. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8112-1100-0. David Hinton.
• The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. New Directions Publishing. 2006.
• I Ching: The Book of Change. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2015. ISBN 978-0-374-22090-7.
• No-Gate Gateway: The Original Wu-Men Kuan. Shambhala Publications. 2018. ISBN 978-1-611-80437-9.
• Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry. Shambhala Publications. 2019. ISBN 978-1-611-80742-4.

Author

• Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape. Shambhala Publications. 2012. ISBN 978-1-611-80016-6.
• Existence: A Story. Shambhala Publications. 2016. ISBN 978-1-611-80338-9.
• The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape. Shambhala Publications. 2017. ISBN 978-1-611-80460-7.
• Desert: Poems. Shambhala Publications. 2018. ISBN 978-1-611-80593-2.
• China Root: Taoism, Ch'an, and Original Zen. Shambhala Publications. 2020. ISBN 978-1-611-80713-4.
• The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition. Shambhala Publications. 2023. ISBN 978-1611-80923-7.

Editor

• Classical Chinese Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. October 2008. ISBN 978-0-374-10536-5.