Charles Simic

Also known as Dušan Simić, Čarls Simić

Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)

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Works: 61

Top works

Thé̂ giới không kết thúc
Return to a place lit by a glass of milk
New and Selected Poems
American Odysseys
La vita delle immagini

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Seattle

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners: 867
Total plays: 2,672

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5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,693x
The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 28,490x
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,951x
Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,134x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,034x

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Quotes

“Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. ... The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit. An educated, well-informed population, the kind that a functioning democracy requires, would be difficult to lie to, and could not be led by the nose by the various vested interests running amok in this country.”
“It’s never been such a good time to be a crook. In what other country of laws does one enjoy so much freedom to defraud one’s government and fellow citizens without having to worry about cops showing at the door? Small-time crooks sooner or later end up in the slammer, but our big-time con artists, as we’ve come to learn, are now regarded as the untouchables, too well-heeled and powerful to lock up.”
“Should some senator or congressman have a sudden attack of conscience and blurt something out, “dark money” brings them to their senses and reminds them that their job is to facilitate the transfer of public funds into the pockets of the few and to not ask too many questions.”

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Key facts

Born: Dušan Simić , ( 1938-05-09 ) May 9, 1938, Belgrade , Yugoslavia
Died: January 9, 2023 (2023-01-09) (aged 84), Dover, New Hampshire , U.S.
Occupation: Poet
Education: New York University ( BA )
Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990) Wallace Stevens Award (2007) Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2014)

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date of birth: 1938-05-09
IPA transcription: [dǔʃan tʃârls sǐːmitɕ]
Commons category: Charles Simic
date of death: 2023-01-09
name in native language: Charles Simic
birth name: Душан Симић

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Article

Dušan Simić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Симић, pronounced [dǔʃan sǐːmitɕ]; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of The Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963–1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues. He was appointed the fifteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2007.

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