What is Carol Ann Duffy?
[[File:Carol Ann Duffy (cropped).jpg|200px|thumb|Duffy in 2009]] '''Dame Carol Ann Duffy''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|DBE]]</small> (born 23 December 1955) is a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]]. She was born in the [[Gorbals]], [[Glasgow]] and moved to [[Stafford]] when she was six.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1532366/Carol-Ann-Duffy Encycolpaedia Britannica]</ref> On 1 May 2009 she was appointed Britain's [[poet laureate]]. She is the first female British poet laureate, as well as being the first Scottish and first [[coming out|openly]] [[LGBT]] one.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5263796/Carol-An-Duffy-The-rhyme-and-reason-for-out-first-laureate.html |title=The rhyme and reason for our first female laureate |access-date=2018-04-01 |archive-date=2012-09-19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919062338/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5263796/Carol-An-Duffy-The-rhyme-and-reason-for-out-first-laureate.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1995, a [[CBE]] in 2002, and was made a dame (DBE) in 2015. == References == <references/> {{bio-stub}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Duffy, Carol Ann}} [[Category:1955 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British playwrights]] [[Category:British poets laureate]] [[Category:LGBT playwrights]] [[Category:LGBT poets]] [[Category:People from Staffordshire]]