Charles Simic, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, dies at age 84

The Serbian-American poet, who was the US poet laureate from 2007-2008, won the Pulitzer in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End

Charles Simic, the Pulitzer prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84.

The death of Simic, the US poet laureate from 2007-2008, was confirmed on Monday by executive editor Dan Halpern at Alfred A Knopf. He did not immediately provide additional details.