查尔斯·西米克

查尔斯·西米克，美国20世纪中后期重要活跃诗人之一。1938年生于纳粹阴影中的南斯拉夫贝尔格莱德，在经历战乱和目睹种种恐惧之后，1953年移民美国，并再次领受了底层生活的诸多艰辛，1973年起执教于新汉普郡大学。出版诗集在内的六十多部著作，1990年获普利策诗歌奖，为美国第15届桂冠诗人。常被译作“西密克”或者“西米克”，按塞尔维亚语音译应作“西米奇”。

Charles Simic is a Serbian American poet and former 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. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.