Dannie Abse and Mark Boada (interview date 1975)
SOURCE: Abse, Dannie, and Mark Boada. “An Interview with Dannie Abse at Princeton University.” Anglo-Welsh Review 25, no. 54 (1975): 128-46.
[In the following interview, Abse reflects on how his background has influenced his approach to medicine and writing.]
Dannie Abse was born on September 22, 1923, the youngest of four children of a lower-middle class Jewish family in Cardiff. After attending a state primary school, Abse went on to an Irish Catholic high school in Cardiff, where he was...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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