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Carol Ann Duffy

1955 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol Ann Duffy has received more than 1,517,784 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Carol Ann Duffy is the 6,116th most popular writer (down from 5,438th in 2019), the 5,715th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,149th in 2019) and the 635th most popular British Writer.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.60

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  • 4.59

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 6,116 out of 5,755Before her are Boris Izaguirre, Michael Arndt, Faye Kellerman, Brené Brown, Marie Darrieussecq, and Ken Liu. After her are David Sedaris, Vin Scully, Robert Bridges, Shirley Ann Grau, Parveen Shakir, and Miro Gavran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 552Before her are Susie Essman, Don Hahn, Anthony Dod Mantle, Roland Brückner, Rick Mitchell, and Christopher Lawford. After her are Mike Parson, Steven Wright, Gernot Jurtin, Patrizio Sala, Mary Black, and Donald Pettit.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 5,715 out of 7,765Before her are David Gandy (1980), Sonia Robertson (1947), Edward Andrade (1887), Philip May (1957), Robson Green (1964), and Michael Kiwanuka (1987). After her are Lustmord (1964), Japhet Tanganga (1999), Alison Carroll (1985), Simon Yates (1992), Lucy Punch (1977), and John Boyega (1992).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 635Before her are Alfred Austin (1835), Thomas Shadwell (1642), Nina Bawden (1925), Clemence Dane (1888), Charles Stross (1964), and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892). After her are Robert Bridges (1844), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Eric Linklater (1899), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), Tom Rob Smith (1979), and John Mortimer (1923).