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Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) was a British author who is famous worldwide for his marvellous stories and screenplays. He was born and raised in Wales by his two Norwegian parents, and that is why Roald actually spoke Norwegian at home with his family. He started to attend school at the age of 8 and was known for always getting in trouble for pranks and jokes he and his friends came up with. After Roald finished the regular school he was sent to several British boarding schools, but he had a hard time because he was homesick, but also because of the homework and the teachers (principal). Roald had a really close relationship with his mother and didn’t want to upset her, so he never told her about the troubles he was having at school. After some work in the Royal Air force in the 1940s Dahl really became interested in writing and got his big breakthrough with both adult and children books. Dahl soon became one of the bestselling authors in the world.
 * The author – Roald Dahl**

Some of his most famous books are //Matilda, The BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory and The witches.// Roald’s life and people from it often inspire the books, but his dreams were the biggest inspiration. As much as 8 of his books has turned into movies, but the most popular is //Matilda// and //Charlie and// //the chocolate factory.// The latest movie was made after Dahl’s death and came out in 2005.

The children books are usually told from a child’s point of view and the villain is almost always an adult who hates children. Roald always claimed that he got abused when he was a kid and went to boarding school and that is why he wrote about adults as villains. Black humour, disgusting violence and grotesque scenarios are common for Dahl’s books. We especially get to see the darker side of Roald in “Matilda”, “The Witches” and “George’s marvellous medicine”. But in most of his stories there’s always a marvellous and nice grownup to represent the “good adult”. Another theme that was frequently used in his stories was class gaps or distinctions, the poor versus the rich. The villains in Roalds books always get punished in an unusual way, like being turned into mouse, falling into a river of chocolate etc.

Roald Dahl’s books and screenplays are both adorable and inspiring, and I hope and think they will be remembered a long way into the future.

 ·  His favourite smell is sizzling bacon  ·  He was nearly two meters long (he said he was a giant)  ·  He loved chocolate and caviar  ·  For much of his life he lived in a gipsy wagon  ·  His favourite music was Beethoven
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