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Carol Ann Duffy

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Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

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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.

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Carol Ann Duffy
said · Dec 4, 2005
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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.

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Carol Ann Duffy
said · Dec 4, 2005
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There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration - a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression.

Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.

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Carol Ann Duffy
said · 1990
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Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990).

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Awards 12

2015Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2012PEN Pinter Prize
2009honorary doctorate
2000E. M. Forster Award
1999Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1992Cholmondeley Award
1988Somerset Maugham Award
1984Eric Gregory Award
poet laureate
Honorary Fellow of the British Academy
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
T. S. Eliot Prize

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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.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1955 · age 70
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28 languages

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