# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-ann-duffy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:50:04.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-ann-duffy"
name: "Carol Ann Duffy"
slug: "carol-ann-duffy"
description: "Dame Carol Ann Duffy 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."
tagline: "Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump