Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia in 1938. He has been a U.S.
citizen for 36 years and served as the United States Poet Laureate from 2007-2008.
Simic
is the author of 18 books of poetry. He is also an essayist,
translator, editor and professor emeritus of creative writing and
literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn't End, 1989. His 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. In 2005 he won the Griffin Prize for Selected Poems: 1963-2003.
He lives in Strafford, N.H.
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