Charles Simic

Serbian born American poet (1938-2023) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84

Dušan Simić, 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.

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2023Died9 January 20232017Golden WreathAward2011Robert Frost MedalAwardVilcek PrizeAward2008Great Immigrants AwardAward2007Wallace Stevens AwardAward2003Horst Bienek Award for PoetryAward1998Fellowship of the Academy of American PoetsAward1993Harold Morton Landon Translation AwardAward1990Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward1984MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1980PEN Translation PrizeAward1976Arts and Letters Award in LiteratureAward1972Guggenheim FellowshipAward1938Born9 May 1938