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Roald Dahls books have
been published in 34different languages.
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The Dahl family went on
summer holidays to Norway
when Roald was young. His
mothers parents lived there
and he loved fishing and exploring the islands.
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In the evenings, Roald
Dahls grandmother and
aunts used to tell himscary stories about
witches, giants and trolls.
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Roald Dahl joined the
Royal Air Force and
he learnt to fly in aTiger Moth biplane.
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Other pilots in the
RAF used to call
him Lofty because
he was so tall!
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His father died when
Roald was only three. He
was brought up by his
mother in a village near
to Cardiff in Wales.
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Roald went to boarding
school when was nine.
He wrote long letters tohis mum every week,
signing them Boy.
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At school, Roald
and his friends
sometimes tested
chocolate bars for
Cadburys!
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Roald was rushed to an Egyptian
hospital when his plane ran out
of fuel while he was flying overthe desert. His plane hit a rock
and burst into flames.
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10,000 copies of Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory were
printed at first. They allsold out in a month.
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Roald also wrote film scripts.
These included Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang and the James Bond
film You Only Live Twice.
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At first, publishers in
Britain didnt want to sell
Roald Dahls books because
they thought the stories
were rude and violent!
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Quentin Blake illustrated lots of
Roald Dahls books, including
The Enormous Crocodile,The Twits and Georges
Marvellous Medicine.
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In 1987, Roald Dahl was
offered an OBE but he
refused to accept it. He
thought that he should
be Sir Roald Dahl.
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Roald hated bullies
and his own birthday.He loved chocolate!
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Roalds first published childrens
book was called The Gremlins.
The RAF pilots blamed elves,
called Gremlins, when there
were problems with the planes!
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Roald won the Whitbread
Prize for The Witches in
1983. He gave the 3000prize money to a hospice
for dying children.
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He used to write six or
seven days a week from
10am until lunchtime andthen from 4pm to 6pm.
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Roald wrote in a shed at the
bottom of his garden at
Gypsy House. His storiescould take between six
months and a year to write.
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The Vicar of Nibbleswick and
The Minpins were
Roalds last stories and
they were published
after he died in 1990.
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