Charles Simic
Serbian-born American poet (1938–2023)
Died aged 84TaurusUnited States
Biography
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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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of New Hampshire
- The New Yorker
Awards & honours (13)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Vilcek Prize
- Golden Wreath
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
- Wallace Stevens Award
- PEN Translation Prize
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Great Immigrants Award
- Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
- Arts and Letters Award in Literature
- Robert Frost Medal
Quick answers about Charles Simic
- How old was Charles Simic?
- Charles Simic died on January 9, 2023 at the age of 84.
- When is Charles Simic's birthday?
- Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938.
- Where was Charles Simic born?
- Charles Simic was born in Belgrade.
- What is Charles Simic's zodiac sign?
- Charles Simic's zodiac sign is Taurus.
- What is Charles Simic's nationality?
- Charles Simic is a citizen of United States, Serbia.
- What does Charles Simic do?
- Charles Simic is known as poet, writer, translator, university teacher.
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