Poet Charles Simic

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Charles Simic

Living place: Belgrade

Birthday: 9-5-1938 (86 years old)

Global rank: #70238

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Poet Charles Simic profile

Who is Poet Charles Simic?
Serbian-American poet and in 1990 received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for the World Without End. His many other collections of poetry include Lifting the Silence, The Weather Forecast for Utopia and its Surrounds, and Endless Blues.
He was selected in 2007 as the Full Moon Poet Laureate Counselor in Poetry by the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate)
 
 

Young / Before famous

He graduated from New York University. He published his first book of poetry, What the Grass Says, in 1967.

Family life info

He was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he immigrated to the United States when he was sixteen years old.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Charles Simic?
He is the 2007 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Prize, presented by the American Academy of Poets.

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When was Poet Charles Simic born?
Charles Simic birthday 9-5-1938 (at the age of 86).
Where is Poet Charles Simic's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, of Serbia. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Charles Simic's global rank is 70238 and whose rank is 515 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1938 and 9-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Charles Simic

  • Hitler marches into Austria; political and geographical union of Germany and Austria proclaimed.
  • Munich Pact—Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia.
  • Nazis destroy Jewish shops, homes, synagogues in Kristallnacht riots; 20,000-30,000 sent to concentration camps.
  • First oil strike in Kuwait transforms the emirate's economy.

Birthday Charles Simic (9-5) in history

  • Day 9-5 year 1914: Mother's Day became a public holiday.
  • Day 9-5 year 1926: Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.
  • Day 9-5 year 1936: Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia.
  • Day 9-5 year 1962: The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.
  • Day 9-5 year 1978: The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in Rome.
  • Day 9-5 year 1984: It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, and six minutes, over two days, to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history.
  • Day 9-5 year 1994: The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.
  • Day 9-5 year 2004: Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed in a bombing. Six others were killed and another 60 wounded.
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