Charles Simic
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Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dušan
- Family name
- Simić
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Place of birth
- Belgrade
- Place of death
- Dover
- Occupation
- essayist
- Educated at
- New York University
- Employer
- The New Yorker
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Image
- Charles Simic.jpg
- Work location
- Strafford
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- date of birth
- 1938-05-09
- member of
- Academy of American Poets
- IPA transcription
- [dǔʃan tʃârls sǐːmitɕ]
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Charles Simic
- influenced by
- Czesław Miłosz
- date of death
- 2023-01-09
- name in native language
- Charles Simic
- birth name
- Душан Симић
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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