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]
Dame Carol Ann Duffy | |
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.jpg) 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 | 23 December 1955 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 |
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]
References
eedit- ↑ "Prof Carol Ann Duffy". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived frae the original on 10 Mey 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2009. "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 7 Januar 2014. Retrieved 9 Februar 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Entertainment | Duffy reacts to new Laureate post". BBC News. 1 Mey 2009. Retrieved 17 Julie 2016.
- ↑ "Carol Ann Duffy | British poet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 Julie 2016.
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