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Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours
Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
Emin, who has survived aggressive bladder cancer and opened her own art school as well as embarking on a new body of work since her diagnosis four years ago, said it was a “brilliant surprise”. The writer Monica Ali, whose debut novel Brick Lane was shortlisted for a Booker prize, and whose subsequent books include Alentejo Blue (2006) and Untold Story (2011), receives a CBE. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Joseph Coelho, the children’s laureate, whose works include his Luna Loves... picture books, the dark series of Fairy Tales Gone Bad and the young adult novel The Girl Who Became a Tree, becomes an OBE.
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