Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL HonFBA HonFRSE (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.
Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL | |
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Duffy in June 2009 | |
| Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom | |
| In office 1 May 2009 – 10 May 2019 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Andrew Motion |
| Succeeded by | Simon Armitage |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 December 1955 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy) |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright |
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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