WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Simic has received more than 270,523 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Charles Simic is the 4,555th most popular writer (down from 4,295th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 211th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Serbian Writer.

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  • 27

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  • 3.37

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  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Simic ranks 4,555 out of 7,302. Before him are Kamala Surayya, Ernst Stadler, Isaac Watts, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Ariel Durant, and Runer Jonsson. After him are Philippe Hériat, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Jayakanthan, Birgitta Trotzig, Amiri Baraka, and Francis de Miomandre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Charles Simic ranks 366. Before him are Tura Satana, Helen, Edda Moser, Aquilino Bocos Merino, Bart Berman, and Barry Newman. After him are Teresa Stratas, Toini Gustafsson, Theodoros Pangalos, Heidi Schmid, Norbert Ratsirahonana, and Vyacheslav Ivanov. Among people deceased in 2023, Charles Simic ranks 398. Before him are Jorge Edwards, Tom Verlaine, Owen Davidson, Barry Newman, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and Grace Bumbry. After him are Theodoros Pangalos, Irma Serrano, Darío Jara Saguier, Klaus Bonsack, Atsushi Sakurai, and Marie Kovářová.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 239 out of 661. Before him are Milenko Radomar Vesnić (1862), Vladan Đorđević (1844), Ratko Rudić (1948), Predrag Bjelac (1962), Jovan Rajić (1726), and Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950). After him are Zdravko Rajkov (1927), Milorad Milutinović (1935), Dragan Šakota (1952), Käthe von Nagy (1904), Stanislav Karasi (1946), and Branislav Pokrajac (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 22. Before him are Borisav Stanković (1876), Laza Kostić (1841), Stevan Sremac (1855), Dušan Kovačević (1948), Milovan Glišić (1847), and Jovan Rajić (1726). After him are Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933), Mira Alečković (1924), Dejan Ajdačić (1959), Zoran Stefanović (1969), Prvoslav Vujcic (1960), and Téa Obreht (1985).

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