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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. Eliot Prize.
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Carol Ann Duffy - E. M. Forster Award (2000) , Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (1995) and more awards.
Article History. Quick Facts. In full: Dame Carol Ann Duffy. Born: December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland (age 68) Title / Office: poet laureate (2009-2019) Awards And Honors: Costa Book Awards (2011) Costa Book Awards (1993) Notable Works: “Little Women, Big Boys” “Love Poems” “Rapture” “Sincerity” “Standing Female Nude” “Take My Husband” “The Bees”
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Carol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet who, according to Danette DiMarco in Mosaic, is the poet of “post-post war England: Thatcher’s England.” Duffy is best known for writing love poems that often take the form of monologues.
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.
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The late 80s and early 90s saw Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry continue to win awards; these included the Scottish Arts Council Award for her collection, Standing Female Nude, published in 1985, and the Somerset Maugham Award for her 1987 collection, Selling Manhattan.
She has won many awards for her work including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Prize. She won the 1983 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘Whoever She Was’.
