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Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish^[3] poet and playwright.

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She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009,^[4] and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet laureate, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.^[5]

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.^[6]

Early life

Carol Ann Duffy was born into a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals,^[7] considered a poor part of Glasgow.

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