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Roald Dahl plaque for 'Weston-super-Mud' ". BBC News. 21 March 2018. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 7 March 2019.

Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)". Archived from the original on 5 December 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. Leishman, Rachel (6 January 2022). "Wes Anderson to Direct Roald Dahl's 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,' Starring Benedict Cumberbatch". Collider . Retrieved 7 January 2022. In January 2022, it was announced that Wes Anderson would direct an adaptation of "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character alongside Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Richard Ayoade, and Ralph Fiennes. It is distributed by Netflix. [7] [8] Anderson later announced that he would also adapt "The Swan" for Netflix, starring Rupert Friend, as well as two additional Dahl short stories, " Poison" and "The Ratcatcher". [3] Editions [ edit ] The headmaster treated students similarly, and Dahl describes an occasion when his friend received several brutal strokes of the cane from the headmaster as punishment for misbehaviour. According to Dahl, this headmaster was Geoffrey Francis Fisher, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London in 1939. However, according to Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, Dahl's memory was in error: the beating took place in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton. The headmaster concerned was in fact John Traill Christie, Fisher's successor. [4] In 1972, Eleanor Cameron, also a children's book author, published an article in The Horn Book criticising Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for being self-referentially hypocritical:

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Sheinman, Anna (15 September 2011). "Roald Dahl: Proudly antisemitic". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021 . Retrieved 9 December 2020. Dennison, Matthew (2023). Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography. Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1-63936-333-9. UK world's best selling children author on Gibraltar stamps". World Stamp News (worldstampnews.com). 15 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011 . Retrieved 28 January 2011. Howard, Philip (1 September 2017). "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/39827. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started CloseDahl liked ghost stories, and claimed that Trolls by Jonas Lie was one of the finest ghost stories ever written. While he was still a youngster, his mother, Sofie Dahl, related traditional Norwegian myths and legends from her native homeland to Dahl and his sisters. Dahl always maintained that his mother and her stories had a strong influence on his writing. In one interview, he mentioned: "She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten." [142] When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he included a grandmother character in The Witches, and later said that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute. [143] [144] Television McElmeel, Sharron L. (1999). "Roald Dahl". 100 Most Popular Children's Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 978-1-56308-646-5.

Roald Dahl (British author)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015 . Retrieved 16 September 2014.Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War. [193] The article appeared in the August 1983 issue of the Literary Review and was the subject of much media comment and criticism at the time. [194] [195] [196] According to Dahl, until this point in time "a race of people", meaning Jews, had never "switched so rapidly from victims to barbarous murderers." The empathy of all after the Holocaust had turned "into hatred and revulsion." [195] Dahl wrote that Clifton's book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", with Dahl stating: "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel." [197] He asked: "must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?" [198] The United States, he said, was "so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions" that "they dare not defy" Israelis. [195] Way Out (TV Series 1961)". IMDb. 8 January 2005. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015 . Retrieved 16 September 2014.

Farrell, Barry (1971). Pat and Roald. Dell Publishing. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Harald Dahl had two children by his first wife, Marie, who died shortly after the birth of their second child. He then married Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Roald's mother. Harald was more than 20 years older than Sofie; he was born in 1863 and she was born in 1885. By the time Roald Dahl was born in 1916, his father was 53 years old.a b c d "Dahl's squishous words get their own dictionary". BBC. 28 May 2016. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019 . Retrieved 20 June 2018. WEB LINKS: corporal punishment in British schools". www.corpun.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016 . Retrieved 26 May 2016. David Thomson (9 August 2010). "Patricia Neal: a beauty that cut like a knife". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. Roald Dahl [a] (13 September 1916– 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. [1] [2] His books have sold more than 300million copies worldwide. [3] [4] Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". [5] Kossoff, Julian (15 September 2011). "The dark side of Roald Dahl". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021 . Retrieved 9 December 2020.