ROALD DAHL
ROALD DAHL’S DAY
Roald Dahl’s legion of fans worldwide, celebrated Roald Dahl’s Day yesterday, September 13th . Most of them children, and also mothers who fancies Roald Dahl’s children’s books for their children. My daughter is just as crazy even thought she’s pass her teen. She has been enjoying Roald Dahl’s children’s books since a kid. Borders bookstores is so generous today as to offer discounts on some of Roald Dahl’s selected titles as well as some free books. If you are one of his fans, you’d better hurry, coz. it’s first come, first served. Remember to bring along The Sunday Star newspaper cut-out free coupons.
Roald Dahl, born on September 13th, 1916 in Llandaff, was brought up by his mother, Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg when his father passed away in 1920. Roald Dahl, was sent to Elmtree House, a local kindergarden school as a kid, later to Llandaff Cathedral school when he was seven years old, where he spent two years, you can read up his child-hood memories, as described in Boy (tales of childhood). After two years in Llandaff Cathedral school, Roald Dahl attended an English boarding School, St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Weston, where he remain from nine years old to thirteen years old. Roald Dahl felt homesick, and he never like it there, but eventually adjusted to school life. Roald Dahl was not popular in school. He was good at sports like cricket and swimming. One of his main hobbies was reading, whereby his own life and his writings were later influence by his favourite novelists.
Dahl had an interesting life full of adventure and fame as well as tragedy. Dahl’s started off when he was asked by a novelist C.S. Forester to share his war experinces for a future publication, to write some notes but, he finished up with a whole complate story that amazed the novelist so much so that he was prised as a gifted writer.
Roald Dahl biography: Roald Dahl (September 13th 1916 - November 23rd 1990). Spent his childhood in England. At age eighteen, he took a job in Shell Company working in London (1933-1937)and in Afica (1937-1939). In World War II, he join the Royal Air-Force and became a fighter pilot serving in Libya, Greece and Syria. He was shot down in Libya, wounded in Syria, before posted to Washington, D.C. at age twenty-six. As an assistant air attache to British Security (1942 - 1943). In 1943, he was a wing commander where he started to write. Roald Dahl started writing for adults, which later lead to children’s stories in 1960. His children’s stories were meant for his own children which he loved very much.
Roald Dahl married actress Patricia Neal, and had one son and four daughters - the eldest daghter Olivia, died of measles when she was eight. Patricia suffered a series of brain hemorrhages at the age of thirty-eight, while pregnant with their fifth child she had a stroke. The marriage ended in 1983 after others family tragedies and Roald Dahl married Felicity Ann Crossland.
Roald Dahl published “James And The Giant Peach” (1961), followed by the highly popular tale “Charlie And The Chocholate Factory” (1964), “The Witches” (1983) won The Whitbread Children’s Book Award in 1983. The Witches was described as deliciously disgusting. Felicity collected her husband’s culinary “delights” such as “Bird Pie”, “Hot Frogs” and “Lickable Wallpaper” in Roald Dahl revolting recipies (1994).
“My Uncle Oswald” (1979) Dahl’s first full-length novel was a bizarre story of a scheme of procuring and selling the sperm of the world’s most powerfull and brilliant man. Dahl recieved three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, (1954, 1959, 1980). “The BFG” won him first literary prize. In 1983, he recieved world Fantasy Convention Lifetime Acheivement Award. Dahl autobiography books “Boy”, tales of childhood and “Going Solo” appeared in 1984 and 1986 respectively. Roald Dahl’s Children’s Gallery was founded in Aylesbury.
Dahl wrote his first children’s book “The Gremlins” (1943), followed by a series of short stories.
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