Encyclopedia > Dannie Abse

  Article Content

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.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Explorer

... Pryor[?], (c 1785-1850), US explorer Pytheas, (died 1984), Greek explorer who visited Britain and other north and northwest European countries R John Rae, (1813-1893), ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 29.3 ms