Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales on
September 13th 1916. His father, Harald, and
elder sister Astri dies when Roald was just
three. His mother, Sofie, was left to raise two
stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was
her only son.
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He remembers his mother as a rock, always on his
side whatever hed done. It gave him the most
tremendous feeling of securities. The young Roald
his sisters tales about trolls and other mythic
Norwegian creatures. And, Roald was child who
enjoyed adventure stories..
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Roald himself kept a secret diary form the age of
eight. Then, every day He would go up myself and
get it our sit in the tree make the entries
for the day. Roalds parents seem to have
instilled in him in a number of character traits.
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Boarding at St. Peters prep school in
Weston-Super-Mare, from 192-9, Roald got into the
habit of writing to his mother once a week. He
continued to do so until her death 32 years
later. Later, when his own children went t to
boarding school. Roald wrote to the twice a week
to brighten up the drudgery of their school days.
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Roald was thirteen when he started at Repton, a
famous public school in Derbyshire. He excelled
at sports particularly heavyweight boxing and
squarsh.
Dahls unhappy time at school was to greatly
influence his writing. He once said that what
distinguished him from most other childrens
writers was this business of remembering what it
was like to be young.
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At 18, rather than going to university, Roald
joined the Public School Exploring Societys
ecpedition to Newfoundland. He was 23 when war
broke out and singes up with the Royal Air Force
in Nairobi. In 1942, he was sent home as an in
valid but transferred to Washington as an air
attaché. It was there that he would meet an
important writer who would meet an important
writer who would set him on the path to a new
career.
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In 1942, during his time in Washington, CS
Forester, author of Capital Hornblower, took
Roald to lunch. Forester was in America to
publicise the British war effort and hoped Roald
would describe his version of the war, which
Forester would write up for the Saturday Evening
Post. Roald chose to write down his
experiences.Ten days after receiving the account.
Forester wrote back Did you know you were a
writer? I havent changed a word. The piece
appeared anonymously in August 1942 under the
title Short Down Over Libya. Roalds career as
a write was underway.
In 1942, during his time in Washington, CS
Forester, author
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For the first fifteen years of his writing
careers Dahl concentrated on writing for adult.
He went to write seventeen articles/ stories for
the Post. They become less less realistic and
more fictional, Roald said, I begin to see I
could handle fiction. The stories were published
in a well-received collection, Over to you. At
that point, Roald realised since I could write,
thats what I d do. His stories are bizarre,
inventive, clever, in aginative,
apinechillingFor kindness and pleasantries.
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Roald Dahls without question the most successful
childrens writer in the world, wrote Brain
Appleyard in The Independent in 1998. Its
tougher to keep a child interested because a
child doesnt have the concentration of an adult.
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His first became interested in writing childrens
book by marking up bedtime stories for his
daughters Olicia Tessa. Roald himself said,
Im probably more lpease with my childrens book
them with my adult short stories. Childrens
books are harder to write. His books are not
just funny, but also through with a zang pathos
which touches the young heart, These books went
on to achieve phemomenal success all over the
world. For many children is synonymous with
reading. He is the one author whose books are
currency among childen, being passed early from
hand to hand as soon as they appear.
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In 1990, Roald was diagnosed with a rare blood
disorder, Myelodysplastic. Roald died on November
23rd 1990at the age of 74.