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Charles Simic
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. He was appointed the fifteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2007.
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culture · Serbian-born American poet (1938–2023) · poet · writer · translator · university teacher · journalist · scholar of English · essayist · also Charles Simic, Dušan Simić, Čarls Simić, Simic
Born 9 May 1938 · Died 9 January 2023 · Q722555
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 5 entries
The Washington Post: Charles Simic, poet laureate of the surreal, dies at 84
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NPR: Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic
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New Republic: Remembering Charles Simic
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Yahoo: Charles Simic, acclaimed poet adept at wordplay, dies at 84
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Died 2023-01-09.
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2017· 2 entries
PBS: Charles Simic
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Won Golden Wreath (2017).
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2013· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: ‘New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012’ by Charles Simic
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Vilcek Prize (2011).
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Won Robert Frost Medal (2011).
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Simic was the recipient of the Frost Medal, presented annually for "lifetime achievement in poetry"
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Wallace Stevens Award (2007).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Horst Bienek Award for Poetry (2003).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
Received the Academy Fellowship in 1998, and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1993).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End (1990).
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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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1984· 1 entry
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded PEN Translation Prize (1980).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1976).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1972).
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-05-09.
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