Charles Simic (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023) was a SerbianAmerican poet. He was the co-poetry 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.
Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.[1]
Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin in 1964, and their union produced two children. In 1971, he became an American citizen.[2] Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9, 2023, at the age of 84.[3][4]
