Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (Llandaff, SouthWales, 13 september 1916 – 23 november , Oxford 1990) was a British writer.

He wrote books for both children and adults. His writing style was particularly: the adult stories are often bizarre and those for children funny, strange, unpredictable, weird and occasionally a bit sadistic. His children's books were of drawings provided by Quentin Blake. They were in the Netherlands both by Granger jury as earned by thechildren's jury . His stories for adults were generally short and often showed a surprising twist at the end. The Boy and Solo books are autobiographical.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===1916-1934[ Edit] === Roald Dahl was in 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff (Wales) born to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg Dahl-. Roald was named after the Polar Explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway. He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents and sisters.
 * 1.1 1916-1934
 * 1.2 1934-1941
 * 1.3 1941-1990
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 2.1 children's books
 * 2.1.1 Fiction
 * 2.1.2 Non-Fiction
 * 2.1.3 Rhyme books
 * 2.2 books for adults and teenagers
 * 2.2.1 Novels
 * 2.2.2 story collections
 * 2.2.3 autobiography
 * 2.3 Film scripts
 * 3 see also
 * 4 external link

In 1920, when Roald was three, died his seven-year-old sister Astri to appendicitis. About a month later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57. Roalds mother decided not to return to Norway; It was the wish of her husband that their children were taught in British schools. Starting from his eighth sent to several boarding schools in England was Roald, including Saint Peter's in Weston-Super-Mare. He Later attended Repton in Derbyshire. During his years there, Cadburywould a chocolate producer, occasionally send new chocolate boxes to the school, which could be tested by the pupils. This was an inspiration for his third children's book Charlie and the chocolate factory .

In his childhood and his teenage years spent his summer holidays in the Dahl Norway where his parents came from. His childhood, are the subject of his autobiographical work Boy: Tales of childhood. ===1934-1941[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In July 1934 he joined the Shell Petroleum Company. After a two-year training in the United Kingdom, he was transferred to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika. Along with the only two other Shell employees in this area, he lived in luxury in the Shell House outside Dar es Salaam, with a cook and personal servants. On the eve of the Second World War he enlisted in the RAF. Although he with 1.98 metres actually was too long, he was in Nairobi, Kenya the first flying lessons in a Tiger Moth and then a follow-up training in Iraq. En route to his first squadron crashed in Libya he (1940). After his recovery, he flew as a fighter pilot in Greece and Palestine. However, in mid-1941, he was rejected as a result of the heavy head injury incurred in the crash in Libya. ===1941-1990<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">His writing career began after he was transferred to Washingtonby the army. His first stories were published in the Saturday Evening Post . He wrote for children and adults, and his stories are generally characterized by a humorous and a dark side.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1953 married Roald Dahl with the American actress Patricia Neal. They had five children: Olivia, Tessa (mother of Sophie Dahl), Theo, Ophelia, and Lucy. Theo a few months after his birth became involved in a traffic accident and sustained brain damage and Hydrocephalus on. Roald Dahl worked as a result develop the Wade-Dahl-Till shunt.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  died In 1962 at the age of seven in the Olivia on subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitisto hospital. In 1982 he carried his book to her on The GVR . In 1983, he divorced Patricia Neal. He married Felivity Ann d'Abreu Crosland.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Roald Dahl died on 23 november 1990 to leukemia. He is buried on the hill opposite ' Gipsy House ', in Great Missenden, near London, where he long lived and worked. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Children's Books<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="170" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many of the stories for children are written from the child, in which the adults the bad guys are, but with at least one good adult as counterpart. ====Fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Non-Fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Rhyme Books<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ===Books for adults and teenagers<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Novels<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Story Collections<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Autobiography<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ===Film scripts<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * The Gremlins (The Gremlins) (1943),
 * The giant peach (James and the Giant Peach) (1961), made into a film in 1996
 * Charlie and the chocolate factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) (1964), made into a film in 1971 and in 2005
 * The magic finger (The Magic Finger) (1966)
 * Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) Zilveren Griffel (1970), 1972, made into a film in 2009
 * Charlie and the great glass elevator (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) (1973)
 * D the world champion (Danny the Champion of the World) (1975), zilveren griffel 1977, filmed in 1989 with Jeremy Irons and his son in the lead role.
 * The giant crocodile (The Enormous Crocodile) (1978)
 * The wonderful story of Henry sugar and six more (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More) (1977), zilveren griffel 1979
 * The Twits (9) (1980), zilveren griffel 1982
 * George's marvellous medicine (George's Marvellous Medicine) (1981)
 * The GVR (The BFG) (1982), zilveren griffel 1984. There are also a play and a cartoon of this book.
 * The witches (The Witches) (1983), made into a film in 1990
 * The Giraffe the Pelly and me, (The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me) (1985)
 * Matilda (Matilda) (1988), made into a film in 1996, won the prize of the Dutch children jury in 1989.
 * SARAH IEORG (ALE TROT) (1989), won the prize of the Dutch children's jury in 1991
 * The Vicar of nibbleswicke (The Vicar of Nibbleswicke) (1991)
 * The Minpins (The Minpins) (1991), won the prize of the Dutch children jury in 1993. With drawings by Patrick Benson
 * Adapting horror Cookbook (Memories with Food at Gipsy House) (1991)
 * Adapting Guide to safe train use (Adapting Guide to Railway Safety) (1991)
 * My year (My Year) (1993)
 * The treasure of Mildenhall (The Mildenhall Treasure) (2000) with drawings by Ralph Steadman. Posthumously published, the text was 1977
 * Revolting rhymes (Revolting Rhymes) (1982)
 * Rotbeesten (Dirty Beasts) (1983)
 * Rhyme Soup (Rhyme Stew) (1990)
 * Ever, ever (Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen) (1948)
 * Uncle Oswald (My Uncle Oswald) (1979)
 * About and close (Over to You) (1946)
 * My sweetheart, my Dove (Someone like You) (1953)
 * On the way to Heaven (Kiss Kiss) (1960)
 * Equal Cross (Switch Bitch) (1974)
 * The nuptial world of Roald Dahl (1978)
 * Dire stories (1981)
 * Top Class (1985)
 * All the stories (1998)
 * Boy (1984), autobiographical sketches of his youth.
 * Going Solo (1986), continuation of his autobiography, that his years for Shell in Tanzania and treat the Second World War .
 * My Year (1993), diary from his final year of life.
 * You Only Live Twice (1967)
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
 * The Night Digger (1971)
 * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)