About Carol Ann Duffy
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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Awards & Honors
Somerset Maugham Award
T. S. Eliot Prize
Cholmondeley Award
poet laureate
PEN Pinter Prize
E. M. Forster Award
Eric Gregory Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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honorary doctorate
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Honorary Fellow of the British Academy
