in Belgrade,

Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade in 1938, and has often been heard to joke that 'My travel agents were Hitler and Stalin'; the hardships and privations of the second world war and the second world war's aftermath led Charles Simic's family to leave Yugoslavia for the US in 1953.

in Yugoslavia

Charles Simic, poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954.

in Belgrade in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, just in time for World War II

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, just in time for World War II, amid the click of Nazi jackboots.

on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where Charles Simic had a traumatic childhood during World War II

Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where Charles Simic had a traumatic childhood during World War II.

Belgrade in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic was born Dusan Simic on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade which was then a part of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet born on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade which was then a part of Yugoslavia.

in Belgrade and

Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade and Charles Simic's darkly ironic point-of-view was no doubt shaped by Charles Simic's formative experiences as a person displaced by World War II and facing hardship in post-war Eastern Europe.