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Carol Ann Duffy
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Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
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- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 63
Top works
- Stung with Love Penguin Classics
- Five finger-piglets
- Sylvia Plath Poems
- NEW SELECTED POEMS
- BEASTS AND BEAUTIES: EIGHT TALES FROM EUROPE; DRAMATISED BY MELLY STILL
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- Preceded by
- Andrew Motion
- Succeeded by
- Simon Armitage
- Born
- ( 1955-12-23 ) 23 December 1955 (age 70) , Glasgow , Scotland
- Alma mater
- University of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy)
- Occupation
- Poet, playwright
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carol
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- Educated at
- University of Liverpool
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Field of work
- drama
- Image
- Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth 2009 (3646825708).jpg
- Residence
- Glasgow
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- date of birth
- 1955-12-23
- Commons category
- Carol Ann Duffy
- nominated for
- Carnegie Medal
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- name in native language
- Carol Ann Duffy
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
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Encyclopedic overview
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, serving in this position until her term ended in 2019. She was the first female, the first Scottish-born 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 Book 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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