Poet
Charles Simic
A Pulitzer, and a childhood in wartime Belgrade he called being one of Hitler's travel agents.
Dušan Simić, known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-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 to 1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues. He was appointed the fifteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2007.
- Born
- 1938-05-09, Belgrade, SerbiaA Monday
- Died
- 2023-01-09, Dover, USAA Monday, aged 84
- At birth
- Sun in Taurus, Moon in Virgo
- Nationality
- Serbia
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1938-05-09, Belgrade, Serbia · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Belgradethe zone used then
Europe/BelgradeThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 18°09′ | Direct |
| Moon | Virgo | 20°36′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aries | 25°50′ | Direct |
| Venus | Gemini | 11°33′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 10°45′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 29°25′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 12°54′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 13°57′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 18°28′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 28°01′ | Direct |
Death Chart
2023-01-09, Dover, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 19°09′ | Direct |
| Moon | Leo | 18°57′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 14°04′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Aquarius | 8°16′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 8°11′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Aries | 2°20′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 23°19′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 15°01′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Pisces | 23°01′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Capricorn | 27°56′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Charles Simic was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.