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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Simic has received more than 253,031 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Charles Simic is the 4,308th most popular writer (up from 4,793rd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 222nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Serbian Writer.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Simic ranks 4,308 out of 5,755. Before him are Carolina Coronado, Olga Orozco, Stephen Baxter, Ki no Tomonori, Panyassis, and Zakaria Tamer. After him are Wolfgang Hildesheimer, James Blish, Agnes Miegel, Greg Bear, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, and Emanuel Geibel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Charles Simic ranks 335. Before him are Murtala Mohammed, Marita Lindahl, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Simone de Oliveira, Francesco Coccopalmerio, and Halit Akçatepe. After him are Ron Ely, Richard Benjamin, Barry Newman, Nani Bregvadze, Henk Groot, and Toini Gustafsson. Among people deceased in 2023, Charles Simic ranks 237. Before him are Theodoros Pangalos, John Romita Sr., Aracy Balabanian, Arsenio Iglesias, Klaus Teuber, and Mikio Sato. After him are Barry Newman, George Winston, Marcos Alonso, Gordon Lightfoot, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Terry Venables.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 211 out of 564. Before him are Sanja Ilić (1951), Vera Nikolić (1948), Ljubiša Spajić (1926), Goran Paskaljević (1947), Milovan Glišić (1847), and Neda Arnerić (1953). After him are Marija Šerifović (1984), Boško Abramović (1951), Silvester Takač (1940), Emina Jahović (1982), Aleksandar Kolarov (1985), and Lazar Ristovski (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Charles Simic ranks 21. Before him are Stevan Sremac (1855), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Laza Lazarević (1851), Dušan Kovačević (1948), Géza Csáth (1887), and Milovan Glišić (1847). After him are Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933), Dejan Ajdačić (1959), Prvoslav Vujcic (1960), Zoran Stefanović (1969), and Téa Obreht (1985).

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