Charles Simic

Charles Simic (; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023) was a Serbian American poet. He was the 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". 
Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.
Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin in 1964, and their union produced two children. In 1971, he became an American citizen. Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9, 2023, at the age of 84.