Date of Birth
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09-May-1938
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Place of Birth
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Belgrade
(Europe, Serbia, Yugoslavia)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Serbia
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Also know as
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Simic, Charles, Dušan Simić, Charles, Dušan "Charles" Simić
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Profession
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Translator, Poet, Essayist, Professor, Philosopher, Author
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Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet and was 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. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.
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