Pakistani-Scottish woman Imtiaz Dharker makes historic achievement of last 350 years history
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*ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani-Scottish woman, Imtiaz Dharker, is expected to become the next poet laureate – a member of the royal household who composes poems for state occasions.*
Dharker will be the first Asian poet laureate in the 350-year-old position’s history and the second woman, succeeding Carol Ann Duffy, to get the honourary position, *Daily Mail* reported.
“Reading her, one feels that she were there to be a world laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate,” Duffy said.
The final decision of the appointment will be taken by The Queen.
The 65-year-old has written about religion, identity, culture and feminism, and is a former poet-in residence at the Cambridge University Library.
She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014.
