Carol Ann Duffy

1955 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Liverpool, King Edward VI High School, Amsterdam International Community School

occupation: poet, writer, professor, author, playwright, university teacher

award received: PEN Pinter Prize, Cholmondeley Award, Eric Gregory Award, poet laureate, E. M. Forster Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Награда Бранко Радичевић, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Somerset Maugham Award, T. S. Eliot Prize

position held: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) 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, and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)