{"title":"Carol Ann Duffy","description":"Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She is a former editor of the poetry magazine \u003cem\u003eAmbit\u003c\/em\u003e and is a regular reviewer and broadcaster. \n\nHer adult poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eStanding Female Nude\u003c\/em\u003e (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; \u003cem\u003eSelling Manhattan\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Other Country\u003c\/em\u003e (1990); \u003cem\u003eMean Time\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); \u003cem\u003eThe World's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e (1999); \u003cem\u003eFeminine Gospels\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003eRapture\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), winner of the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize. Her children's poems are collected in \u003cem\u003eNew \u0026amp; Collected Poems for Children\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). \n\nShe 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. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. She now lives in Manchester, where she is Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She became Poet Laureate in 2009, succeeding Andrew Motion.\n\n\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Forward Poetry Prize, paying tribute to the books which have won the Best Collection. Gillian Clarke writes on Carol Ann Duffy's \u003cem\u003eMean Time\u003c\/em\u003e which won the Prize in 1993, published by Anvil Press. 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