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ROALD DAHL
- Roald Dahl was born in Wales
- rose to prominence in the 1940s with books for both children and adults
- became one of the world’s best-selling authors
- he has been referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century”
- has won many awards
- 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
- 1990 Children’s Author of the Year (from the British Book Awards)
- 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.
- Dahl’s short stories are known for their unexpected endings & his children’s books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour
- most well known works include
- James and the Giant Peach
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Matilda
- The Witches
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- The Twits
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- The BFG
- from 1975 the illustrations in all of Roald Dahl’s books were done by Quentin Blake.
- Dahl ranks amongst the world’s best-selling fiction authors with sales estimated at over 100 million
- 2003 UK survey carried out by the BBC in order to find the “nation’s best loved novel” of all time, four of Dahl’s books were named in the top 100
- Roald Dahl 1961 JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
- Roald Dahl 1964 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
- Roald Dahl 1970 FANTASTIC MR FOX
- Roald Dahl 1978 THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE
- Roald Dahl 1980 THE TWITS
- Roald Dahl 1981 GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
- Roald Dahl 1982 BFG
- Roald Dahl 1983 THE WITCHES
- Roald Dahl 1985 THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME
- Roald Dahl 1988 MATILDA
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