Roald Dahl - Wikipedia. Roald Dahl. Dahl in 1. Born(1. 91. 6- 0. September 1. 91. 6Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UKDied. November 1. 99. 0(1. Oxford, England, UKOccupation.

Novelist, poet, screenwriter. Period. 19. 42–1. Genre. Children's, adults' literature, horror, mystery, fantasy. Spouse. Patricia Neal(m. 1.

Felicity Ann d'Abreu Crosland(m. 1. Children. 5, including Tessa, Ophelia, and Lucy Dahl. Relatives. Nicholas Logsdail(nephew)Sophie Dahl(granddaughter)Phoebe Dahl(granddaughter)Military career. Allegiance United Kingdom. Service/branch. British Army (August–November 1. Royal Air Force (November 1. August 1. 94. 6)Years of service.

Rank. Squadron leader. Battles/wars. World War IIWebsiteroalddahl. Roald Dahl (English: ,[1]Norwegian: [ˈruːɑl ˈdɑːl]; 1. September 1. 91. 6 – 2. November 1. 99. 0) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.[2] His books have sold more than 2. Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander.

He rose to prominence in the 1. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 2. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1. World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1. In 2. 00. 8, The Times placed Dahl 1. The 5. 0 greatest British writers since 1.

Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.[8][9] His books champion the kind- hearted, and feature an underlying warm sentiment.[1. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine.

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His adult works include Tales of the Unexpected. Early life. Childhood.

Roald Dahl was born in 1. Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).[1.

Dahl's father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg in Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1. His mother came over and married his father in 1. Dahl was named after the Norwegian polar explorer. Roald Amundsen. His first language was Norwegian, which he spoke at home with his parents and his sisters Astri, Alfhild and Else. Dahl and his sisters were raised in the Lutheran faith, and were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped.[1. Mrs Pratchett's former sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff has a blue plaque commemorating the mischief a young Roald Dahl played on her by putting a mouse in the gobstoppers jar.[1.

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In 1. 92. 0, when Dahl was three years old, his seven- year- old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. Weeks later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 5. With the option of returning to Norway to live with relatives, Dahl's mother decided to remain in Wales, because Harald had wished to have their children educated in British schools, which he considered the world's best.[1. Dahl first attended the Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends (one named Thwaites) were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop,[6] which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman called Mrs Pratchett.[6] This was known among the five boys as the "Great Mouse Plot of 1. A favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, Dahl would later refer to gobstoppers in his literary creation, Everlasting Gobstopper.[1. Thereafter, he transferred to a boarding school in England: St Peter's in Weston- super- Mare.

Roald's parents had wanted him to be educated at an English public school and, because of a then regular ferry link across the Bristol Channel, this proved to be the nearest. His time at St Peter's was an unpleasant experience for him. He was very homesick and wrote to his mother every week but never revealed to her his unhappiness. Only after her death in 1. In 2. 01. 6, to mark the centenary of Dahl's birth, his letters to his mother were abridged and broadcast as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.[2. Dahl wrote about his time at St Peter's in his autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood.[2.

Repton School. From 1. Repton School in Derbyshire. Dahl had unhappy experiences of the school, describing an environment of ritual cruelty and acting as personal servants for older boys along with terrible beatings; these violent experiences are described in Donald Sturrock's biography of Dahl.[2.

There are echoes of these darker experiences in Dahl's writings and his hatred of cruelty and corporal punishment.[2. According to Boy: Tales of Childhood, a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury and went on to crown. Queen Elizabeth II in 1. However, according to Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown,[2. May 1. 93. 3, a year after Fisher had left Repton and the headmaster concerned was in fact J. T. Christie, Fisher's successor.) This caused Dahl to "have doubts about religion and even about God".[2.

He was never seen as a particularly talented writer in his school years, with one of his English teachers writing in his school report "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended."[2. Dahl was exceptionally tall, reaching 6 feet 6 inches (1. He played a number of sports, including cricket, football, golf and was made captain of the squash team.[2. As well as having a passion for literature, he also developed an interest in photography[1. During his years at Repton, Cadbury, the chocolate company, would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils.[2. Dahl would 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 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1. Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent the majority of his summer holidays with his mother's family in Norway, and wrote about many happy memories from those expeditions in Boy: Tales of Childhood, such as when he replaced the tobacco in his half–sister's fiancé's pipe with goat droppings.[3.

He only experienced one unhappy memory of his holidays in Norway at around the age of eight, when his adenoids were removed by a doctor.[3. His childhood and first job selling kerosene in Midsomer Norton and surrounding villages in Somerset are subjects in Boy: Tales of Childhood.[3. After school. After finishing his schooling, in August 1. Dahl crossed the Atlantic on the RMS Nova Scotia and hiked through Newfoundland with the Public Schools Exploring Society.[3. In July 1. 93. 4, Dahl joined the Shell Petroleum Company. Following two years of training in the United Kingdom, he was transferred first to Mombasa, Kenya, then to Dar- es- Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Along with the only two other Shell employees in the entire territory, he lived in luxury in the Shell House outside Dar es Salaam, with a cook and personal servants.

While out on assignments supplying oil to customers across Tanganyika, he encountered black mambas and lions, among other wildlife.[2. Fighter ace. In August 1.

Banished Word List Archive – Lake Superior State University***This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the committee restores “truthiness,” banned on last year’s list, to formal use. This comes after comedians and late- night hosts were thrown under the bus and rendered speechless by a nationwide professional writers’ strike. The silence is deafening.***PERFECT STORM – “Overused by the pundits on evening TV shows to mean just about any coincidence.” – Lynn Allen, Warren, Michigan.“I read that ‘Ontario is a perfect storm,’ in reference to a report on pollution levels in the Great Lakes. Ontario is the name of one of the lakes and a Canadian province.

This guy would have me believe it’s a hurricane. It’s time for ‘perfect storm’ to get rained out.” – Bob Smith, De. Witt, Michigan.“Hands off book titles as cheap descriptors!” – David Hollis, Hamilton, New York. WEBINAR – A seminar on the web about any number of topics.“Ouch! It hurts my brain. It should be crushed immediately before it spreads.” – Carol, Lams, Michigan.“Yet another non- word trying to worm its way into the English language due to the Internet.

It belongs in the same school of non- thought that brought us e- anything and i- anything.” – Scott Lassiter, Houston, Texas. WATERBOARDING – “Let’s banish ‘waterboarding’ to the beach, where it belongs with boogie boards and surfboards.” – Patrick K.

Egan, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. ORGANIC – Overused and misused to describe not only food, but computer products or human behavior, and often used when describing something as “natural,” says Crystal Giordano of Brooklyn, New York. Another advertising gimmick to make things sound better than they really are, according to Rick De. Van of Willoughby, Ohio, who said he has heard claims such as “My business is organic,” and computers having “organic software.”“Things have gone too far when they begin marketing T- shirts as organic.” – Michelle Fitzpatrick, St. Petersburg, Florida.“‘Organic’ is used to describe everything, from shampoo to meat. Banishment! Improperly used!” – Susan Clark, Bristol, Maine.“The possibility of a food item being inorganic, i.

John Gomila, New Orleans, Louisiana.“You see the word ‘organic’ written on everything from cereal to dog food.” – Michael, Sacramento, California.“I’m tired of health food stores selling products that they say are organic. All the food we eat is organic!” – Chad Jacobson, Park Falls, Wisconsin. WORDSMITH/WORDSMITHING – “I’ve never read anything created by a wordsmith – or via wordsmithing – that was pleasant to read.” – Emily Kissane, St.

Paul, Minnesota. AUTHOR/AUTHORED – “In one of former TV commentator Edwin Newman’s books, he wonders if it would be correct to say that someone ‘paintered’ a picture?” – Dorothy Betzweiser, Cincinnati, Ohio. POST 9/1. 1 – “‘Our post- 9/1. AD, BC, or Y2. K, time references. You’d think the United States didn’t have jet fighters, nuclear bombs, and secret agents, let alone electricity, ‘pre- 9/1. Chazz Miner, Midland, Michigan. SURGE – “‘Surge’ has become a reference to a military build- up. Give me the old days, when it referenced storms and electrical power.” – Michael F.

Raczko, Swanton, Ohio.“Do I even have to say it? I can’t be the first one to nominate it…put me in line. From Iraq to Wall Street to the weather forecast – ‘surge’ really ought to recede.” – Mike Lara, Colorado.“This word came out in the context of increasing the number of troops in Iraq. Can be used to explain the expansion of many things (I have a surge in my waist) and it’s use will grow out of control…The new Chevy Surge, just experience the roominess!” – Eric Mc. Millan, Mentor, Ohio. GIVE BACK – “This oleaginous phrase is an emergency submission to the 2.

The notion has arisen that as one’s life progresses, one accumulates a sort of deficit balance with society which must be neutralized by charitable works or financial outlays. Are one’s daily transactions throughout life a form of theft?” – Richard Ong, Carthage, Missouri.“Various media have been featuring a large number of people who ‘just want to give back.’ Give back to whom? For what?” – Curtis Cooper, Hazel Park, Michigan.‘BLANK’ is the new ‘BLANK’ or ‘X’ is the new ‘Y’ – In spite of statements to the contrary, ‘Cold is (NOT) the new hot,’ nor is ’7. The idea behind such comparisons was originally good, but we’ve all watched them spiral out of reasonable uses into ludicrous ones and it’s now time to banish them from use. Or, to phrase it another way, ‘Originally clever advertising is now the new absurdity!'” – Lawrence Mickel, Coventry, Connecticut.“Believed to have come into use in the 1. The comparisons have become absurd.” – Geoff Steinhart, Sault Ste.

Marie, Michigan.“‘Orange is the new black.’ ’5. Chocolate is the new sex.’ ‘Sex is the new chocolate.’ ‘Fallacy is the new truth.’ – Patrick Dillon, East Lansing, Michigan. BLACK FRIDAY – “The day after Thanksgiving that retailers use to keep themselves out of the ‘red’ for the year.

And then followed by “Cyber- Monday.”) This is counter to the start of the Great Depression’s use of the term ‘Black Tuesday,’ which signaled the crash of the stock market that sent the economy into a tailspin. Carl Marschner, Melvindale, Michigan.

BACK IN THE DAY – “Back in the day, we used ‘back- in- the- day’ to mean something really historical. Now you hear ridiculous statements such as ‘Back in the day, people used Blackberries without Blue Tooth.'” – Liz Jameson, Tallahassee, Florida.“This one might’ve already made the list back in the day, which was a Wednesday, I think.” – Tim Bradley, Los Angeles, California. RANDOM – Popular with teenagers in many places.“Over- used and usually out of context, i. You are so random!’ Really? Random is supposed to mean ‘by chance.’ So what I said was by chance, and not by choice?” – Gabriel Brandel, Farmington Hills, Michigan.“Outrageous mis- and overuse, mostly by teenagers, i. This random guy, singing this random song…It was so random.’ Grrrrr.” – Leigh, Duncan, Galway, Ireland.“Overuse on a massive scale by my fellow youth.

Every event, activity and person can be ‘sooo random’ as of late. Banish it before I go vigilante.” – Ben Martin, Adelaide, South Australia.“How can a person be random?” – Emma Halpin, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. SWEET – “Too many sweets will make you sick. It became popular with the advent of the television show ‘South Park’ and by rights should have died of natural causes, but the term continues to cling to life. It is annoying when young children use it and have no idea why, but it really sounds stupid coming from the mouths of adults.

Please kill this particular use of an otherwise fine word.” – Wayne Braver, Manistique, Michigan“Youth lingo overuse, similar to ‘awesome.’ I became sick of this one immediately.” – Gordon Johnson, Minneapolis, Minnesota. DECIMATE – Word- watchers have been calling for the annihilation of this one for several years.“Used today in reference to widespread destruction or devastation. If you will not banish this word, I ask that its use be ‘decimated’ (reduced by one- tenth).” – Allan Dregseth, Fargo, North Dakota.“I nominate ‘decimate’ as it applies to Man’s and Nature’s destructive fury and the outcome of sporting contests. Decimate simply means a 1. It may have derived notoriety because the ancient Romans used decimation as a technique for prisoner of war population reduction or an incentive for under- performing battle units. Watch The French Connection Online Free 2016. A group of 1. 0 would be assembled and lots drawn.