Editing Charles Simic (section)

{{Short description|Serbian-born American poet (1938–2023)}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2023}}
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{{Infobox poet
| name        = Charles Simic
| image       = Charles simic 6693.JPG
| caption     = Simic in 2015
| birth_name  = Dušan Simić
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1938|05|09}}
| birth_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2023|01|9|1938|05|09}}
| death_place = [[Dover, New Hampshire]], U.S.
| education   = [[New York University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| occupation  = Poet
| awards      = {{Plainlist|
* {{nowrap|[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (1990)}}
* [[Wallace Stevens Award]] (2007)
* [[Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award]] (2014)}}
}}
'''Dušan Simić''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Душан Симић}}, {{IPA|sh|dǔʃan sǐːmitɕ|pron}}; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as '''Charles Simic''', was a [[Serbian Americans|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 2001–present|url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-2001-present.html|publisher=Library of Congress|year=2009|access-date=January 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805022616/http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-2001-present.html|archive-date=August 5, 2010}}</ref>