Autor/-in: Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse. was born in Cardiff in 1923. He began his medical studies at the Welsh National School of Medicine and qualified as a doctor from Westminster Hospital, London in 1950. While still a student his first book of poems was published and his first play performed. Further poetry volumes followed over the decades, culminating in his New & Collected Poems. (2003) and Running Late. (2006). His first novel, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve. appeared in 1954 and his most recent, the Booker long-listed The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas. in 2002.