1995, received the Academy Fellowship in 1998, and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000. Simic was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize and continued to contribute poetry and prose to The New York Review of Books. He received the US$100,000 Wallace Stevens Award in 2007 from the Academy of American Poets. Simic was selected by James Billington, Librarian of Congress, to be the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, succeeding Donald Hall. In choosing Simic as the poet laureate, Billington cited "the rather stunning and original quality of his poetry". In 2011, Simic was the recipient of the Frost Medal, presented annually for "lifetime achievement in poetry". Simic's extensive papers as well as other material about his work are held at the University of New Hampshire Library Milne Special Collections and Archives. Personal life and death Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin in 1964, and their union produced two children. In 1971, he became an American citizen. Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9, 2023, at age 84. Awards PEN Translation Prize (1980) Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (1983) MacArthur Fellowship (1984–1989) Pulitzer Prize finalist (1986) Pulitzer Prize finalist (1987) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990) Wallace Stevens Award (2007) Frost Medal (2011) Vilcek Prize in Literature (2011) Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2014) Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings (2017) Bibliography Poetry Collections 1967: 1969: 1971: Dismantling the Silence 1972: White 1974: Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk 1976: Biography and a Lament 1977: Charon's Cosmology 1978: Brooms: Selected Poems 1978: School for Dark Thoughts 1980: They Forage at Night 1980: Classic Ballroom Dances 1982: Austerities 1983: Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity: Poems, 1967–1982 1985: Selected Poems, 1963–1983 (1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist) 1986: Unending Blues (1987 Pulitzer Prize finalist) 1989: Pyramids and Sphinxes 1989: Nine Poems 1989: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) 1990: The Book of Gods and Devils 1992: Hotel Insomnia 1994: A Wedding in Hell: Poems 1995: Frightening Toys 1996: Walking the Black Cat: Poems, (National Book Award in Poetry finalist) 1997: 1999: Jackstraws: Poems (The New York Times Notable Book of the Year) 1999: 2001: Night Picnic, 2003: The Voice at 3:00 am: Selected Late and New Poems 2004: Selected Poems: 1963–2003, 2004 (winner of the 2005 International Griffin