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Charles Simic

1938 - 2023

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Simic is the 1,154th most popular writer (up from 4,554th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 239th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Serbian Writer.

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Among writers, Charles Simic ranks 1,154 out of 7,302. Before him are Chiara Lubich, Assia Djebar, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frans Sammut, Jean-François Marmontel, and Jean Webster. After him are Antarah ibn Shaddad, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Gottfried Keller, P. G. Wodehouse, Vladimir Bartol, and Irving Stone.

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Among people born in 1938, Charles Simic ranks 83. Before him are Ryōji Noyori, Marcello Gandini, Murtala Mohammed, Tatsuya Shiji, Leonardo Boff, and Keith O'Brien. After him are Seishiro Shimatani, Dean Reed, Luigi Tenco, Mamadou Tandja, Ricardo Lagos, and David Lane. Among people deceased in 2023, Charles Simic ranks 74. Before him are Milan Milutinović, Mark Margolis, William Friedkin, Gordon Moore, Hans Modrow, and Dick Fosbury. After him are Gianluca Vialli, Renata Scotto, Superstar Billy Graham, Álvaro Colom, Burt Bacharach, and Amancio Amaro.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 67 out of 661. Before him are Milena Dravić (1940), Radoje Domanović (1873), Olivera Despina (1372), Milan Milutinović (1942), Dragan Stojković (1965), and Filip Vujanović (1954). After him are Moša Pijade (1890), Dušan Simović (1882), Vlade Divac (1968), Draga Mašin (1864), Vujadin Boškov (1931), and Aşub Sultan (1627).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 7. Before him are Vuk Karadžić (1787), Milorad Pavić (1929), Danilo Kiš (1935), Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Branislav Nušić (1864), and Radoje Domanović (1873). After him are Desanka Maksimović (1898), Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833), Vasko Popa (1922), Đura Jakšić (1832), Isidora Sekulić (1877), and Laza Kostić (1841).

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