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Wendy Cope

British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81

Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.

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1995Michael Braude Award for Light VerseAward1992Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1987Cholmondeley AwardAward1945Born21 July 1945

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