Carol Ann Duffy
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scots poet an playwricht. She is Professor o Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan Varsity, an wis appointed Breetain's Poet Laureate in Mey 2009.[1] She is the first woman, the first Scot, an the first openly LGBT person tae hauld the poseetion.[2]
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL | |
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Duffy in Juin 2009 | |
Poet Laureate o the Unitit Kinrick | |
Assumed office 1 Mey 2009 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Precedit bi | Andrew Motion |
Personal details | |
Born | (1955-12-23) 23 December 1955 (age 68) Glesga, Scotland |
Naitionality | Breetish |
Relatives | Mary Black (mither) died 2005 Frank Duffy (faither) |
Eddication | B.A. (Hons) Philosophy |
Alma mater | Varsity o Liverpuil |
Thrift | Poet, playwricht |
Awairds | OBE 1995 CBE 2002 DBE 2015 |
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Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner o a Scots Airts Cooncil Awaird; Selling Manhattan (1987), which wan a Somerset Maugham Awaird; Mean Time (1993), which wan the Whitbread Poetry Awaird; an Rapture (2005), winner o the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, an violence in an accessible leid that has made them popular in schuils.[3]