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Ella Creamer

‘True trailblazer’: British author and activist Maureen Duffy dies aged 92

Maureen Duffy stands at a flower stall with white flowers behind her
Maureen Duffy in 1968. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Maureen Duffy, author of more than 60 works and a pioneering activist for gay rights and writers’ rights, has died at the age of 92.

Duffy was awarded the inaugural £10,000 Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Pioneer prize last year by Bernardine Evaristo, who described her as a “true trailblazer in every sense of the word”.

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