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Also known as Dušan Simić, Čarls Simić

Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)

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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
Languages spoken
Serbian
Image
Charles Simic.jpg
Work location
Strafford
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date of birth
1938-05-09
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
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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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