Carol Ann Duffy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carol Ann Duffy

British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1955

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, poet, professor, playwright, author

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a British poet and playwright.
She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019.
She was the first woman, the first Scottish-born poet, and the first LGBT poet to hold the 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), winner of the T.
S.
Eliot Prize.
Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.