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Full Name: Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955)
From: Glasgow, Scotland
"Duffy lived in Glasgow, Scotland, until age six, when she and her family moved to Stafford, England. Her father, a fitter for an electric company, ran an unsuccessful bid for Parliament in 1983. Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing her poetry in magazines at age 14." - Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Standing Female Nude (1895) - Scottish Arts Council Award

Selling Manhattan (1987) - Somerset Maugham Award

Rapture (2005) - T.S Elliot Prize

The Bees (2011) - Costa Poetry Award

Pinter Prize (2012)

Mean Time (1993) - Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize

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Themes according to the British Council Literaure:

Language

Representation of reality

Construction of the self

Gender issues

Oppression and social inequality

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- Duffy had eagerness to explore literature from a young age. This was "encouraged by two of her English teachers, and developed by the poet-artist Adrian Henri (one of a trio of Liverpool poets whose work was famously anthologised as ‘The Mersey Sound’ in 1967), with whom she lived romantically from the age of 16 until 1982" - (Scottish Poetry Library)
- Carol Ann Duffy identifies as a lesbian though her poetry about love is not gender bias - (Poetry Foundation)
- Duffy is a professor of poetry and "the creative director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She lives in Manchester" - (Poetry Foundation)

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"She writes in everyday, conversational language, making her poems appear deceptively simple" - (British Council Literature)

"She makes frequent use of the dramatic monologue in her exploration of different voices and different identities, and she also uses the sonnet form" - (British Council Literature)

"Duffy is both serious and humorous, often writing in a mischievous, playful style - in particular, she plays with words as she explores the way in which meaning and reality are constructed through language" - (British Council Literature)

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Duffy was raised in a Roman Catholic Household - (Wikipedia)