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==Honours and awards== Duffy holds honorary doctorates from the [[University of Dundee]], the [[University of Hull]], the [[University of St Andrews]], and the [[University of Warwick]], as well as an Honorary Fellowship at [[Homerton College, Cambridge]].<ref name=about/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/weekly/6160/section15.shtml#heading2-52 |title=College Notices β Cambridge University Reporter 6160 |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=7 October 2009 |access-date=11 April 2012}}</ref> * 1983: [[National Poetry Competition]] 1st prize (for ''Whoever She Was'') * 1983: Greenwich Poetry Competition ("for Words of Absolution") * 1984: [[Eric Gregory Award]] * 1986: [[Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] (for ''Standing Female Nude'') * 1988: [[Somerset Maugham Award]] (for ''Selling Manhattan'') * 1989: [[Dylan Thomas Prize]] * 1990: [[Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] (for ''The Other Country'' * 1992: [[Cholmondeley Award]] * 1993: [[Costa Book Award for Poetry|Whitbread Awards]] (for ''Mean Time'') * 1993: [[Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] (for ''Mean Time'') * 1993: [[Forward Prizes for Poetry|Forward Prize]] (for ''Mean Time'') * 1995: [[Lannan Literary Awards|Lannan Literary Award]] * 1999: Signal Children's Poetry Prize * 1999: Elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] * 2001: [[National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts|National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts]] Award * 2005: [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (for ''Rapture'') * 2011: [[Costa Book Awards]] (Poetry), winner, ''The Bees''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16410520 |title=Close-up on the Costa winners |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=17 July 2016}}</ref> *2012 [[PEN Pinter Prize]] *2013: Assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb/features/power-list-100|title=BBC Radio 4 β Woman's Hour β The Power List 2013|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 July 2016|archive-date=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319195056/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb/features/power-list-100|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2015: Elected as an [[Honorary Fellow]] of the [[British Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-fellowship-reaches-1000-42-new-uk-fellows-are-welcomed|title=British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed|date=16 July 2015}}</ref> *2015: Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/carol-ann-duffy/|title=Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE, HonFBA, HonFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|website=rse.org.uk|access-date=16 February 2018}}</ref> *2021: [[Struga Poetry Evenings]] Golden Wreath Laureate<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Wreath Award |url=https://svp.org.mk/en/zlaten-venec/ |website=Struga Poetry Evenings |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> She was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1995, [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 2002, and [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to poetry.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61092 |supp=y|page=N8|date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf |title=2015 New Year Honours List |website=Gov.uk |access-date=17 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102104907/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf |archive-date=2 January 2015 }}</ref>
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