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Born December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland

At 6 years moved to England

went to convent schools

published poetry magazines at age 14

(Carol Ann Duffy-Encyclopaedia Britannica)

parents are Mary Black and Frank Duffy

Irish Catholic descent

4 younger brothers

(Carol Ann Duffy - Poets.org)

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Attended Liverpool University and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1977

published several books

1988-1989 worked as a poetry critic for The Guardian.

Editor for the poetry magazine Ambit.

1996 began lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University,

creative director of the Writing School.

(Carol Ann Duffy-Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection of linked love poems

standing Female Nude, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award

Selling Manhattan, a Somerset Maugham Award

Mean Time, won the Whitbread Poetry Award

(Carol Ann Duffy, Blue Flower Arts)

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"representation of reality; the construction of the self; gender issues; contemporary culture; and many different forms of alienation, oppression and social inequality."

(Carol Ann Duffy, British Council)

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feminism