Dahl's usual illustrator, Quentin Blake, was "away on holiday," she said, so "Ian asked Dahl if he could help with the illustrations". "Dahl ended up producing a variety of sketches which Ian used ...

Roald Dahl's original sketches, created for his memoir, will be sold at auction after being found in an envelope. Dahl, who was born in the Cardiff suburb of Llandaff, produced the sketches in black ...

Roald Dahl would be “immediately” cancelled in today’s world, the Hollywood actor portraying him in the West End has said. John Lithgow, who has won plaudits for his portrayal of the Charlie ...

Steve Gardam, director of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, said: "The opal stone has been on the writing desk of Roald Dahl since he received it in 1989 and has remained there ever since.

Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021 —but it’s been tapping into the author’s vast catalogue since 2018, when it inked an animation-specific deal to bring his work to the ...

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 of Lebanon.

Bringing us to No. 2 is Wes Anderson’s first try at adapting a Roald Dahl book into a feature with the 2009 stop-motion movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Based off the children’s novel of the same ...

The fact that Dahl hated Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and publicly disowned the film gives a lot of credence to the idea that authors aren’t always the best judges of their own work.

Wes Anderson this month at the Venice Film Festival, where “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” had its premiere before moving to Netflix this week. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images ...

Dropping on September 28 is The Swan, starring Rupert Friend, Asa Jennings, and Fiennes as Roald Dahl himself, a role he reprises for Sugar and the final short, Poison.

Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company in September 2021. The Twits follows the nasty Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who also own and operate a disgusting and dangerous amusement park, Twitlandia.

The Roald Dahl Museum in England, founded by the widow of the children’s author, has acknowledged his racism was “undeniable and indelible.” Dahl, who died in 1990, was the creator of ...