Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was was a British novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13th 1916. His parents were Norwegian. The young Roald loved stories and books. His mother told Roald and his sisters tales about trolls and other mythical Norwegian creatures.
Roald kept a secret diary from the age of eight. "To make sure that none of my sisters got hold of it, I used to put it in a waterproof tin box tied to a branch at the very top of an enormous conker tree in our garden. I knew they couldn't climb up there. Then every day I would go up myself and get it out and sit in the tree and make the entries for the day."
Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead rat in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman called Mrs Pratchett who would always be forcing them to buy sweets. This was known amongst the five boys as the "Great Mouse Plot of 1924". This was Roald's own idea.
Dahl was very tall, 1.98 m in adult life. He was good at sports, being made captain of the school fives and squash teams, and also playing for the football team. He developed an interest in photography. During his years there, Cadbury, the chocolate company, would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. Dahl apparently used to dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr Cadbury himself, and this proved the inspiration for him to write his third book for children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1963) and include references to chocolate in other books for children.
Some of his books: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Gremlins, A Fable for Supermen, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr. Fox, James and the Giant Peach, My Uncle Oswald, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Matilda, ...

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Roald Dahl died in November 1990. The anniversary of Dahl's birthday on 13 September is celebrated as "Roald Dahl Day" in Africa and Latin America.




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