Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.
Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Tuesday 4th Dec 2012
This Christmas, we're offering you the chance to win a limited edition print taken from Carol Ann Duffy's Christmas poem Wenceslas, which has been beautifully illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic.
We asked members of the public who had given or received, Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife on World Book Night 2011 to share some of their experiences with us. Read below for some of their brilliant stories.