New Poet Laureate appointed | Number10.gov.uk.
The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Carol Ann Duffy CBE be appointed Poet Laureate in Ordinary to Her Majesty in succession to Professor Andrew Motion for a term of ten years.
Biographical notes
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her family moved to England when she was 5 and she grew up in Stafford with her four brothers. In 1977 she received an Honours Degree in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool and since that time she has devoted herself to writing poetry for both adults and children. She has also worked occasionally in Theatre, notably with Tim Supple in their adaptations of Grimms’ Tales.
Since the birth of her daughter, Ella, in 1995, Carol Ann has written several illustrated fairy tales for children and her writing for children is just as important to her as her adult poetry. Carol Ann lives in Manchester, where she is Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, a post she hugely enjoys.
Carol Ann Duffy has received numerous awards for her work, among them The Somerset Maugham Award, The Dylan Thomas Award, an Eric Gregory Award, A Cholmondely Award, The Whitbread Prize for Poetry, The Forward Prize, The Signal Award for Children’s Poetry, and The T.S. Eliot Prize. She has received an OBE and a CBE for services to Poetry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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