charles simic – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Charles Simic to be named poet laureate /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/02/charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/02/charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate/#respond Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:02:24 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/08/02/charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate/ , two-time winner of the , will be named U.S. poet laureate by Congress today:

Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United States at 16. He started writing poetry in English only a few years after learning the language and has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, as well as essay collections, translations and a memoir.

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