Charles Simic (1938–2023)
Author of The World Doesn't End
About the Author
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, immigrated with his family to Chicago in 1954, and was educated at New York University. Although his native language was Serbian, he began writing in English. Some of his work reflects the years he served in the U.S. Army (1961--63). He has been show more awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts award. "My poetry always had surrealistic tendencies, which were discouraged a great deal in the '50's," the poet said, but such tendencies were applauded in the 1970s and his reputation consequently flourished. His poems are about obsessive fears and often depict a world that resembles the animism of primitive thought. His work has affinities with that of Mark Strand and has in its turn produced several imitators. Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Charles Simic
School for Dark Thoughts 4 copies
Il titolo 2 copies
Biography and a Lament 2 copies
Mestre dos Disfarces 1 copy
Ludak 1 copy
"In Praise of Invective" 1 copy
School for Dark Thoughts. 1 copy
Una Boda en el Infierno 1 copy
Blues utan slut 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 172 copies
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 138 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 31 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributor — 1 copy
Ironwood 28 Dickinson/Spicer: A Special Issue — Contributor — 1 copy
Kayak 8 — Contributor — 1 copy
Fire Exit, April, foldout issue, cover by Philip Guston — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Simic, Charles
- Legal name
- Simić, Dušan
- Other names
- Simic, Charles
- Birthdate
- 1938-05-09
- Date of death
- 2023-01-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Yugoslavia (birth)
USA (naturalized 1971) - Birthplace
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- Place of death
- Dover, New Hampshire, USA
- Cause of death
- complications of dementia
- Places of residence
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Strafford, New Hampshire, USA - Education
- New York University (BA|1966)
- Occupations
- writer-in-residence (Baruch College, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2008)
poet
translator
editor
professor - Organizations
- University of New Hampshire
Paris Review
United States Army - Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (1984-1989)
Wallace Stevens Award (2007)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2007)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1976)
Frost Medal (2011) (show all 9)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1995)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990)
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Statistics
- Works
- 105
- Also by
- 64
- Members
- 3,570
- Popularity
- #7,099
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 170
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 9