Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
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, 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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Career highlights
Career & roles
- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Employers / organisations
- Manchester Metropolitan University
Notable works
- The World's Wife
Awards & honours (12)
- PEN Pinter Prize
- Cholmondeley Award
- Eric Gregory Award
- poet laureate
- E. M. Forster Award
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Honorary Fellow of the British Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- honorary doctorate
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