Charles Simic
Charles Simic (IPA: [ˈtʃ͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ͡]; born May 9, 1938 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is an American poet and the 15th Poeta laureatus in the USA. In 2007 he was named Poet Laureate .
Live and act
In 1953 his family emigrated from communist Yugoslavia to Chicago . He graduated from New York University . He is Professor Emeritus of American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire . He writes poetry and essays for The New York Review of Books . Charles Simic is also the translator of numerous works from the countries of the former Yugoslavia into American. He wrote numerous essays on the recent Balkan wars as well as the current situation in Serbia and Kosovo. His essay on the political and historical background to the recognition of Kosovo by the US in The New York Review of Books, published on April 3, 2008, sparked a polemical discussion in which high-ranking Western diplomats and historians involved in the events in the former Yugoslavia participated .
Awards
- MacArthur Fellowship (1984)
- Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End Poetry Collection (1990)
- Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995)
- Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
- Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry (2003)
- Griffin Poetry Prize (2005)
- Poeta laureatus (2007)
- Wallace Stevens Award (2007)
- Frost Medal (2011)
Works
- What the Grass Says (1967)
- Somewhere Among Us A Stone Is Taking Notes (1969)
- Dismantling The Silence (1971)
- White (1972)
- Return To A Place Lit By A Glass Of Milk (1974)
- Charon's Cosmology (1977)
- School For Dark Thoughts (1978)
- Classic Ballroom Dances (1980)
- Austerities (1982)
- Unending Blues (1986)
- The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990)
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The Book of Gods and Devils (1990)
- German by Hans Magnus Enzensberger : A book of gods and devils , Hanser, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-446-17557-1 .
- Hotel Insomnia (1992)
- Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1993)
- A Wedding in Hell (1994)
- Walking the Black Cat (1996)
- Jackstraws (1999)
- A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs (2000) (German Die Fliege in der Soup , translated by Rudolf von Bitter)
-
Night Picnic: Poems (2001)
- German by Wiebke Meier: Picnic in the night , Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-24724-6
- The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems (2003)
- Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004)
- Monkey Around (2006)
- The secret of happiness. Memories with drawings by Kurt Löb (2006) (translated by Melanie Walz von Reche)
- My silent entourage . Poems. From the American by Wiebke Meier. Edition Lyrik Kabinett by Hanser (2006)
- The perception of the poet: on poetry and reality (2007) (selected and translated by Thomas Poiss)
- My Noiseless Entourage: Poems (2005)
- Army. Memories with drawings by Kurt Löb (2008)
literature
- Goran Mijuk: Charles Simic: The Orphan Of Silence (PDF; 875 kB). Dissertation, University of Friborg, 2002.
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Simic in the catalog of the German National Library
- Charles Simic on perlentaucher.de
- The troubled birth of Kosovo, The New York Review of Books (English)
- The Cortland Review: Interview (English)
- poets.org: Biography (English)
- Charles Simic: Picnic at night . Essay on: www.Signaturen-Magazin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life has to end . Essay in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 14, 2008
- ^ The Troubled Birth of Kosovo . Essay in the New York review of books . Volume 55, No. 5, April 2, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simic, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simić, Dušan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade , Yugoslavia |