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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 laureate, 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 Book 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol Ann Duffy has received more than 1,608,795 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Carol Ann Duffy is the 6,772nd most popular writer (down from 6,092nd in 2019), the 6,250th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,702nd in 2019) and the 705th most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 38.27

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Feminine Gospels
Poetry, Women
2002
Rapture
2005
The World's Wife
Women, Married women, Poetry
1999
Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
2002
Mean time
1993
Standing female nude
1985
Challenge
Fiction, general, Adultery, Fiction
1920
The World's Wife
Women, Married women, Poetry
1999
Sylvia Plath Poems
Poetry (poetic works by one author), American literature, American poetry
2012
The bees
Scottish authors, Bees, English poetry
'The Bees' is a collection of poetry from the pen of Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Weaving through the book is its presiding spirit, the bee, symbolizing what we have left of grace in the world and what is most precious for us to protect.
2011
Rapture
2005
Feminine Gospels
Poetry, Women, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
2002

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 6,772 out of 7,302. Before her are Michael Davitt, Leena Lehtolainen, Charley Boorman, Ed Greenwood, Nina Bawden, and Abdellah Taïa. After her are Claire Keegan, Maja Lunde, Stevie Smith, Claudio Rodriguez Fer, Katharine Lee Bates, and Pierdomenico Baccalario.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 649. Before her are Jay McInerney, David Axelrod, Steve Coppell, Gernot Jurtin, Adam Curtis, and Jacques N'Guea. After her are Steven Wright, Ann Bancroft, Rosario Fernández, Roberto Rojas, Boris Alexandrov, and Nikolay Solodukhin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 6,250 out of 8,785. Before her are Raquel Cassidy (1968), Michael Fallon (1952), Nina Bawden (1925), Aaron Ramsdale (1998), Mark E. Smith (1957), and Adam Curtis (1955). After her are Amanda Abbington (1974), Steve Jones (1944), Simon Kinberg (1973), Stevie Smith (1902), Barry Evans (1943), and Julian Marley (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy ranks 705. Before her are Jane Taylor (1783), Maggie O'Farrell (1972), George Etherege (1635), Stanley Middleton (1919), Charley Boorman (1966), and Nina Bawden (1925). After her are Stevie Smith (1902), Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981), Russell T Davies (1963), Noel Streatfeild (1895), Sebastian Faulks (1953), and Louis MacNeice (1907).

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