Paul Victor Ableman (13 June 1927 – 25 October 2006) was an English playwright and novelist.
Ableman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a Jewish family.
He was the son of Jack Ableman, a trouser cutter at a tailoring factory, and Gertrude (née Gould), an actress and writer.
After National Service in the Education Corps based in Gibraltar, he read English at King's College, London, but did not take a degree.
[3][1] His experimental novel, I Hear Voices, was published in 1958 by the Olympia Press, and his plays include Green Julia (1966), a witty two-hander in which two young men discuss an absent mistress, and Tests (1966), which collects surreal playlets written for Peter Brook's Theatre of Cruelty.