Awards and Honours
Cooper was awarded an OBE for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2004.
On 13 November 2009 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Gloucestershire at a ceremony in Gloucester Cathedral.
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