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Roald Dahl

(1916 - 1990)
Father of Tessa Dahl, Grandfather of Sophie Dahl

Kids and adults alike love Roald Dahl's deliciously wicked books. Loved for their gleefully evil villains and their often mischievous sensibility, Dahl's books introduce us to fantastic creatures and bizarre places -- and encourage our imaginations to run wild.

Awards: WFA (1983), Edgar (1960) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction, Horror

Series

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   1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
   2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book (2011)

Novels

   The Gremlins (1943)
   Sometime Never (1948)
   James and the Giant Peach (1961)
   The Magic Finger (1966)
   Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)
   Danny (1975)
   My Uncle Oswald (1979)
   The Twits (1980)
   George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
   The BFG (1982)
   The Witches (1983)
   The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
   Matilda (1988)
   Esio Trot (1989)
   The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
   The Mildenhall Treasure (1999)

Collections

   Over to You (1946)
   Someone Like You (1953)
   Kiss Kiss (1959)
   Selected Stories (1968)
   Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
   Switch Bitch (1974)
   The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
   Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
   Taste and Other Tales (1979)
   More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
   A Roald Dahl Selection (1980)
   Way Up to Heaven (1980)
   Further Tales of the Unexpected (1981)
   Revolting Rhymes (poems) (1982)
   The Best of Roald Dahl (1983)
   Dirty Beasts (poems) (1983)
   The Puffin Roald Dahl Collection (1985)
   Selected Works (1985)
   Roald Dahl's Completely Unexpected Tales (1986)
   Two Fables (1986)
   A Second Roald Dahl Selection (1987)
   New Tales of the Unexpected (1988)
   Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (1989)
   Rhyme Stew (poems) (1989)
   The Complete Tales of the Unexpected (1991)
   Edward the Conqueror (1991)
   The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991)
   The Vicar of Nibbleswicke and Other Stories (1992)
   The Roald Dahl Audio Collection (1995)
   Lamb to the Slaughter (1995)
   Great Mouse Plot (1996)
   The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1996)
   Ten Short Stories (1997)
   The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
   The Umbrella Man (1998)
   It's Heaven to Be Seven (2000) (with others)
   Skin (2000)
   The Man from the South (2002)
   Roald Dahl Gift Set (2004)
   Roald Dahl's Incredible Chocolate Box (2005)
   A Taste of the Unexpected (2005)
   Vile Verses (poems) (2005)
   Songs and Verse (poems) (2005)
   Collected Stories (2006)
   Roald Dahl's Glorious Galumptious Story Collection (2009)
   Spotty Powder and Other Splendifourous Secrets (2010)
   Three Tales of Magic and Mischief (2012)
   The Complete Short Stories: Volume One (2013)
   The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two (2013)
   Deception (2016)
   Fear (2017)
   Innocence (2017)
   Trickery (2017)
   War (2017)
   Cruelty (2019)
   Great Stories for All Time by Two Master Storytellers (2022) (with Ruskin Bond)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Great Switcheroo (1990)
   Beware of the Dog (2010)
   Bitch (2012)
   Royal Jelly (2012)
   Billy and the Minpins (2017)

Anthologies edited

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983)

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Books containing stories by Roald Dahl

Crimes of Cymru (2023)
Stories of Cambrian Crime
(British Library Crime Classics)
edited by
Martin Edwards

A Children's Literary Treasury (2022)
Magical Stories for Every Feeling
edited by
Anna James

Tales of the Tattooed (2019)
An Anthology of Ink
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 13)
edited by
John Miller

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Awards

	1983 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
	1960 Edgar Award for Best Short Story : The Landlady
	1954 Edgar Award for Best Short Story : Someone Like You

Award nominations

1978 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement (nominee)

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