Biography
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in accessible language.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1955-12-23 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceGlasgow, United Kingdom
Religionatheism
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesGlasgow, United Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Eric Gregory Award, E. M. Forster Award, PEN Pinter Prize, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, poet laureate, Cholmondeley Award, T. S. Eliot Prize, Somerset Maugham Award
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