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Charles Simic

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Also known as Dušan Simić, Čarls Simić

Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)

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Charles Simic was a male person born on May 9, 1938, and died on January 9, 2023. He is associated with the area of Seattle. His works include *Thé̂ giới không kết thúc*, *Return to a place lit by a glass of milk*, *New and Selected Poems*, *American Odysseys*, and *La vita delle immagini*.

He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Macarthur Fellows collection. His name appears in the Charles Simic Commons category. He is referenced by 385 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Seattle

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
867
Total plays
2,672

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Simic">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

    · 1989 · cited 29,193x

  3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    · 2015 · cited 23,755x

  4. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,431x

  5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,871x

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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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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
Sources (7)

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles Simic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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