The collection of sketches were produced by Dahl in black ball point pen for his memoir, Boy (1984), in which he describes ...

Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl 's beloved children's story The BFG will know that not all giants are Big and Friendly. Not least this enormously tall, hugely imaginative, massively successful ...

Author Roald Dahl (1916 - 1995), born in Wales of Norwegian parentage. ... Which is funny, because those of us who grew up with his books know this: Roald Dahl is a very significant author.

Dahl was likely influenced by Lewis Carroll, who invented words inhis poem Jabberwocky. Roald Dahl’s gobblefunk is a glorious mixture of quirky words, mixed-up grammar and malapropisms that has ...

It started with a book review. In the August 1983 issue of Literary Review, a British journal, the beloved children’s author Roald Dahl reviewed an eyewitness account of Israel’s 1982 invasion ...

Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) are to publish new stories featuring Roald Dahl’s worlds and characters, including a book following on from The Twits written by Greg James and ...

American-born actress Patricia Neal. with her husband, author Roald Dahl and their 9-month-old daughter Lucy Neal Dahl, in May 1966, at their home at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. (AP ...

A play exploring Roald Dahl’s anti-Semitism is being staged at the theatre that was previously forced to apologise to the Jewish community. The Royal Court Theatre, in London’s Sloane Square ...

Paul King may be returning to the Gene Wilder original with the Wonka prequel, but Tim Burton's 2005 film remains closer to Roald Dahl (with some caveats).

Paul King, the director of the Timothée Chalamet-led ‘Wonka,’ says one of the joys of adapting Roald Dahl is in placing childlike whimsy beside macabre storytelling ...

Olivia Colman and Murder in Successville's Tom Davis play antagonistic double act Scrubbit and Bleacher, the owners of a hotel and wash house who trick their guests into years of servitude in ...

How Wonka Stays True to Roald Dahl ... “The great thing about her is that she’s this funny, ... the Oompa-Loompas don’t have a lot of dialogue but instead have these long cautionary poems, ...