https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm en-us 2023-09-11 19:17:00 UTC 2023-09-11 19:57:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698055247 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.]]> 2023-09-11 19:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698055247 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698058958 Carol Ann Duffy was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, considered a poor part of Glasgow.]]> 2023-09-11 19:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698058958 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698060605 2023-09-11 19:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698060605 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698060961 2023-09-11 19:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698060961 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698063000 At the age of 16, Duffy began a relationship with poet Adrian Henri, living with him until 1982. Duffy later met poet Jackie Kay, with whom she had a 15-year relationship. During her relationship with Kay, Duffy gave birth to a daughter, Ella , whose biological father is fellow poet Peter Benson.]]> 2023-09-11 19:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698063000 0070185434 https://padlet.com/0070185434/u9ydm1g9lmz6ebmm/wish/2698064140

983: National Poetry Competition 1st prize (for Whoever She Was)

1983: Greenwich Poetry Competition ("for Words of Absolution")

1984: Eric Gregory Award

1986: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Standing Female Nude)

1988: Somerset Maugham Award (for Selling Manhattan)

1989: Dylan Thomas Prize

1990: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for The Other Country

1992: Cholmondeley Award

1993: Whitbread Awards (for Mean Time)

1993: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Mean Time)

1993: Forward Prize (for Mean Time)

1995: Lannan Award

1999: Signal Children's Poetry Prize

1999: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2001: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts Award

2005: T S Eliot Prize (for Rapture)

2011: Costa Book Awards (Poetry), winner, The Bees

2012 PEN/Pinter Prize

2013: Assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

2015: Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

2015: Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

2021: Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate

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