Ash on a Young Man''s Sleeve

About 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. His three prize-winning plays were collected in The View from Row G (1990) and his autobiography Goodbye Twentieth Century was published in 2001. He is president of the Welsh Academi and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.