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May 2, 2009

After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman

by Sarah Lyall, New York Times, USA - The writer Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate on Friday, becoming the first woman to take a 341-year-old job that has been held by, among others, Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Cecil Day-Lewis and Ted Hughes.

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