Biography and works
Petko Hinov was born on 4 September 1972 in Plovdiv. After completing his secondary education at the Plovdiv English High School (1991), he studied and graduated from Sofia University with a first major in Chinese Studies and a second major in Romanian Studies (1996).
He published his book of poems Mourning Songs/ Lament for the Homeland and the Soul as part of the Orthodox Home internet collection under the pseudonym Philip Andreev. Some of his other stories and articles were also posted there. He was a translator of articles and books from English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Serbian, and Church Slavonic to Bulgarian, and also from Bulgarian to English, Russian, and Chinese. Some of his translations have been published on the Internet. Petko Hinov was author of liturgical hymns and services in Church Slavonic. He is also audiobook narrator on the Internet, on his own site.
In 2006, a collection compiled by him and dedicated to the martyrs of Batak was published with the title On the Tracks/In the Footsteps of the Bulgarian New Martyrs, volume 1 - The New Martyrs of Batak.
Between 2010 - 2013, he worked as an English teacher in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
In 2013, he returned to Bulgaria with his Chinese wife and started working as a translator (Chinese, Old Chinese, Old Bulgarian, Old Russian), collaborator, editor, and consultant for Iztok -Zapad Publishing House.
In July 2015, he participated in the Science and Education Programme for Young Sinologists organized by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and worked at the Institute studying the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. As a result of this appears his research: The Tears of Love Between Nostalgia and Beauty in “A Dream of Red Mansions” and Bulgarian Literature.
In April 2016, Petko T. Hinov becomes a member of the Bulgarian Translators’ Union (Fiction section).
Personal website: http://petkohinov.com
 
Awards
• 2014 – Special award of the Year of the Bulgarian Translators’ Union, for exceptionally high achievements in the field of translation, for his translations of Thirty-six Strategems and Fireside Talk at Night from Old Chinese (Iztok -Zapad Publishing House)
• 2015 - Hristo G. Danov National Award of the Ministry of Culture for the translation of A Dream of Red Mansions, volume 1, by Cao Xueqin.
• 2017–Special Contribution to the Chinese Book Award, 第十一助中华图书青年经合奖
 
Translations
 
1. From Modern Chinese
• Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, a novel, 《生死油是》莫言著). Lettera, 2015, 887 p.
• Xu Zhimo, Selected Poems, Confucius Institute Magazine, 1/2013
• Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (Chinese folk psychology《吾國與吾民》林語堂著). Iztok -Zapad, 2015, 448 p., translation from English and Chinese
• Chen Qihong, Getting Started with Chinese Medicine
 (《一看就懂：圖解中醫入門》陳祈宏著). East-West, 2017, 264 p.
• Petko Hinov 韩裴, 《归宿：爱中国，爱保加利タ》, 译者陈晓颖, 中名电视社, 2020, 318 p., written in English
 
2. From Modern Chinese to English
• Tao Yi, Qin The Guangling School, 廣陵琴派/符號江蘇口袋本, 陶藝著, XANADU PUBLISHING LTD, 2017, 165 pages
• Lu Haiming, Republican Nanjing Architecture, 南京民國建築, 盧海鳴著 , XANADU PUBLISHING LTD, 2019, 223pages
 
3. From Old Chinese and Medieval Chinese
• Anonymous, Thirty-Six Stratagems, 三十六計, a military treatise, with comments and interpretations by the translator. East-West, 2013, 320 p.
• Wang Yongbin, Fireside Talk at Night,《圍爐夜話》王永彬著, “miniatures of pure words” with comments and interpretations by the translator. Iztok -Zapad, 2014, 288 p.
• Cao Xueqin, A Dream of Red Mansions, vol.1,《紅樓夢》第一冊，曹雪芹著, Medieval Novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2015, 608 p.
• Shi Yukun, The Wonderful Deeds of Judge Bao, vol.1 (《七俠五義》第一冊，石玉昆著, a medieval adventure novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2016, 544 p.
• Cao Xueqin, A Dream of Red Mansions, vol.2《紅樓夢》第一冊，曹雪芹著, a medieval novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2016, 608 p.
• Shi Yukun, The Wonderful Deeds of Judge Bao, vol.2 (《七俠五義》第二冊，石玉昆著, Medieval Adventure Novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2017, 408 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book One (《中華思想文化術語》第一冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2017, 144 p.
• Cao Xueqing, A Dream of Red Mansions, vol.3 (《紅樓夢》第三冊，曹雪芹著, Medieval Novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2018, 624 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book Two (《中華思想文化術語》第一冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2018, 160 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book Three (《中華思想文化術語》第三冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2018, 152 p.
• Cao Xueqing, A Dream of Red Mansions, vol.4 (《紅樓夢》第一冊，曹雪芹著, medieval novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2019, 544 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book Four (《中華思想文化術語》第一冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2019, 160 p.
• Shi Yukun, The Wonderful Deeds of Judge Bao, Vol.3 (《七俠五義》第三冊，石玉昆著, Medieval Adventure Novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2020, 400 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book Five (《中華思想文化術語》第二冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2020, 160 p.
• Shi Yukun, The Wonderful Deeds of Judge Bao, Vol.4 (《七俠五義》第一冊，石玉昆著, Medieval Adventure Novel), Iztok -Zapad, 2021, 432 p.
• Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, Book Six (《中華思想文化術語》第一冊), Iztok -Zapad, 2021, 152 p.
• Liang Qichao, Six Discourses on Confucianism 《儒学六讲》梁启超著, Iztok -Zapad, 2022, 352 p.
 
4. From Bulgarian
• Petko Hinov, The New Martyrs of Batak, ST. APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST LUKE, 2006, 330p.
• Petko Hinov, Bulgarian ethnology and translation, Bulgarian Bestseller, 2019, 136 p.
 
5. From Church Slavonic
• Akathist to St. Photius the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor and Equal-to-the-Apostles, S. 2004
• Akathist to the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The Joy of All Who Sorrow, S., 2005
• Akathist to St. Mina the Great Martyr, S. 2007
• All-Night Vigil service and Akathist to the Holy New Martyrs of Batak (author in Church Slavonic, translator into Bulgarian. S., 2007, 95 p.)
• Psalter, S., 2009, unpublished, 180 p.
 
6. From Serbian
• Bishop Nikolay Velimirovich, I believe in one God: interpretation of the Symbol of Orthodox Faith. St. Apostole and Evangelist Luke, S., 2005, 102 p.
• Bishop Nikolay Velimirovich, Above the East and the West: Eight Philosophical Reflections on the Orthodox Balkans. St. Apostole and Evangelist Luke, S., 2004, 42 p.
 
7. From Russian
• Saint Theophan the Recluse, Thoughts for Each Day of the Year According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God, unpublished, S., 2005, 304 p.
8. From Romanian to Church Slavonic
• Service to Our Venerable and God-bearing Father Dimitrie Basarbovski the New, S., 2006
 
9. From English to Church Slavonic
• Service to Our Venerable Father Hilarion Metropolitan of Kiev and Schema Monk of Pechersk Monastery Whose Holy Relics Rest in the Distant Caves, S., 2015
• Service to the Holy Right-Believing Vladislav-Stefan King of Serbia, S., 2016