Correct Answer - Option 1 : Carol Ann Duffy
The correct answer is Carol Ann Duffy.
- The Poet laureate of the United Kingdom in the year 2013 was Carol Ann Duffy.
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Carol Ann Duffy was appointed at the post of poet laureate in the year 2009 for a period of 10 years.
Some previous British Poet Laureates were -
- John Dryden (1668-1688)
- Thomas Shadwell (1689-1692)
- Nahum Tate (1692-1715)
- Nicholas Rowe (1715-1718)
- Laurence Eusden (1718-1730)
- Colley Cibber (1730-1757)
- William Whitehead (1757-1785)
- Thomas Warton (1785-1790)
- Henry James Pye (1790-1813)
- Robert Southey (1813-1843)
- William Wordsworth (1843-1850)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850-1892)
- Alfred Austin (1896-1913)
- Robert Bridges (1913-1930)
- John Masefield (1930-1967)
- Cecil Day-Lewis (1968-1972)
- Sir John Betjeman (1972-1984)
- Ted Hughes (1984-1998)
- Andrew Motion (1999-2009)