Charles Simic

Charles Simic
Simic in 2015
BornDušan Simić
(1938-05-09)May 9, 1938
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
DiedJanuary 9, 2023(2023-01-09) (aged 84)
Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.
OccupationPoet
EducationNew York University (BA)
Notable awards

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.