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Poet, playwright and novelist Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff of Jewish parents and studied medicine at the University of Wales, Westminster Hospital and King's College, London, from where he qualified as a doctor in 1950. Abse's first and most popular novel was the autobiographical Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (1954); he has also published seven volumes of verse and five volumes of plays. Most of his poetic work deals with the unusual and unexpected, while the plays are experimental in tone and relate mainly to contemporary themes and ideas.