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Birthplace:

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955 and lived there until she moved to Stafford England when she turned 6.

Social Class & Schooling:

Duffy was born into a lower class catholic family and attended convent schools.

Introduction to literature:

She initially began writing and publishing poetry at age 14 in 1969.

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Duffy's adult life was centered around literature since she was introduced to it at such a young age, with that being said she transitioned from her convent schooling to Liverpool University  and graduated in 1977 with a degree in Philosophy.

She began publishing more works and began lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University, to where she became the creative director of the Writing School.

Duffy became a atheist at age 15 and, says that her religious upbringing has helped her poetry, stating that "poetry and prayer" are very similar.

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Awards that her works have won:
Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Other Country (1990); Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); The World's Wife (1999); Feminine Gospels (2002), a celebration of the female condition; Rapture (2005), winner of the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Bees (2011), winner of the 2011 Costa Poetry Award and shortlisted for the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Christmas Truce (2011), Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem (2012), illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic; Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday (2014) and Sincerity (2018). Her children's poems are collected in New & Collected Poems for Children (2009). In 2012, to mark the Diamond Jubilee, she compiled Jubilee Lines, 60 poems from 60 poets each covering one year of the Queen's reign. In the same year, she was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize.

Awards she has won:
She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1984 and a Cholmondeley Award in 1992 from the Society of Authors, the Dylan Thomas Award from the Poetry Society in 1989 and a Lannan Literary Award from the Lannan Foundation (USA) in 1995. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.

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Duffy often writes about language, the representation of reality, the construction of self, gender issues, contemporary culture, alienation, oppression, and social inequality.

When writing about religion, she often focuses on the topics of Confession and Prayer.

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Third Wave Feminism
Post Structuralism
Post Modernism

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