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  2. Roald Dahl - Wikipedia

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    Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegians Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Dahl's father, a wealthy shipbroker and self-made man , had emigrated to Britain from Sarpsborg , Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s with his first wife, Frenchwoman ...

  3. Roald Dahl revision controversy - Wikipedia

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    Roald Dahl was a British author of children's literature. Dahl's works are published by Puffin Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, while the rights to his works are managed by the Roald Dahl Story Company. [3] In September 2021, streaming service Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company. [4]

  4. Revolting Rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Revolting Rhymes is a 1982 poetry collection by British author Roald Dahl.Originally published under the title Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, it is a parody of traditional folk tales in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes.

  5. Editors rewrite Roald Dahl’s books to remove controversial ...

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  6. Salman Rushdie leads criticism of ‘absurd’ Roald Dahl censorship

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    Salman Rushdie has spoken out against recent reports that passages have been rewritten in some of Roald Dahl’s books to remove language that may be considered offensive.. A report on Friday 17 ...

  7. Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove controversial language - AOL

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  8. Literary nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]

  9. Esio Trot - Wikipedia

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    Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today."