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 PhD. in

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at the

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(UChicago) in 1967. During his career, Hine taught at UChicago, 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. 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 gay 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 Samuel Todes, 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 * 1986

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Fellow * 1980

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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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