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Also Known As	Dame Carol Ann Duffy
Born	December 23, 1955 (age 70) • Glasgow • Scotland
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” • “The Hat” • “The Other Country” • “The Tear Thief” • “The World’s Wife” • “Underwater Farmyard”

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