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Encyclopedia > Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse (really Daniel Abse, born September 22, 1923) is a British poet and writer. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to a Jewish family. He is the brother of politician Leo Abse. He first studied medicine at the University of South Wales, the Westminster Hospital, and the King's College in London.


Abse's first poetic volume After Every Green Thing was published in 1949. His autobiographic work Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve was published in 1954.


He won the Welsh Arts Council Award in both 1971 and 1987, and the Cholmondeley Award in 1985. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1983.


He has for decades been associated with, and living in, the north-west area of London, mainly in and around Hampstead with which he has considerable ties. For many years he wrote a column for the Ham & High (Hampstead and Highgate Express) local newspaper, the articles subsequently being published in book form.


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Dr Dannie Abse CV at PFD (278 words)
Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff in 1923.
Dannie revises and expands this early autobiography and, in the second half, brings his life up to the present and the birth of a new century.
Dannie's new poems draw on the strengths and preoccupations of a long and distinguished career, with evocations of a Welsh childhood and re-interpretations of bardic and Jewish mythology.
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