Carol Ann Duffy
Poet, Noble person
1955 –
Who is Carol Ann Duffy?
Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position.
Her collections include Standing Female Nude, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1955
Glasgow - Also known as
- Κάρολ Ανν Ντάφι
- Даффи, Кэрол Энн
- 卡罗尔·安·达菲
- Parents
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Liverpool
- Lived in
- Glasgow
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on July 23, 2013
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