Dannie Abse bio

Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family in 1923. He has two older brothers Leo and Wilfred. Dannie Abse studied Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London. Abse was a specialist doctor for over 30 years. 

Abse has won numerous awards for his poems and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales in 1989. Dannie Abse has lived in Hampstead, London for several decades where he used to write an article for a local newspaper called the Ham & High. 

In 2005, his wife Joan Abse died in a car accident. The Presence, a memoir of the year after his wife died, was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Wales Book of the Year award.