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 BORN 
September 22nd, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH
Cardiff, WALES
FAMOUS FOR
Poet and Writer (and a qualified Doctor)
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Daniel (otherwise known
as Dannie) Abse was born into a distinguished Jewish family in
Cardiff. He had two older brothers; Leo, a politician who
famously made homosexuality legal in Wales and England and
Wilfred, who was a respected psychoanalyst. Dannie studied
medicine at the University of Wales, the Westminster Hospital, and
King's College London.
While Dannie was still in medical school his first poetry book,
"After Every Green Thing", was published in 1949. After
working for many years in London, Dannie moved back to South Wales
for his retirement, and took this opportunity to devote his time to
his writing. He won the Welsh Arts Council Award in both 1971
and 1987, and the Cholmondeley Award in 1985. He has been a member of the
Royal Society of Literature since 1983.
Dannie Abse lives in Golders Green, a very cosmopolitan district of
London that has a thriving Jewish Community - as well as a summer house at Ogmore-by-the-Sea in his native Wales. In June 2005 when driving from
London to Ogmore, he was involved in a car accident;
his wife Joan, aged 78, died instantly; Abse suffered a broken rib. |
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