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[[File:Roald Dahl.jpg|thumb|300px|Roald Dahl in 1954]]
'''Roald Dahl''' (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) is a Norwegian-British author who has become famous for his distinctively dark children's novels. His style is very [[Black Comedy]], and as a result the stories contain a good deal of more-than-usually sophisticated [[Nightmare Fuel]]. The fact that his target audience has been happily lapping all this up for decades now seems to imply that many kids actually ''like'' to be terrified (hey, it works for ''[[
Put bluntly, Dahl seems to have used writing for children as an acceptable means to beat on [[Humans Are
Come to think of it, this may explain quite a bit about his appeal among, well, innocent young children. Quite a few not-so-innocent ones, too.
All of this would also be following [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] pretty closely if most of his small heroes and heroines weren't themselves deliberately very average-looking. They're also in large part [[Aesop]]-
One other trope that he often averts is [[Infant Immortality]], though mostly off screen - kids can be hurt, and even killed or eaten, though these are almost always [[Red Shirt
Traditionally, his books are illustrated by Quentin Blake, master of loopy sketchiness. Almost all of his juvenile books have been made into
He was born on September
Most controversially (and the obvious reason why he never received a knighthood or other official UK honours) he was also quite the anti-Semite:
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* ''[[The BFG]]''
* ''[[Charlie and
* ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''
* ''[[Danny, the Champion of
* ''[[The Enormous Crocodile]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[James and
* ''[[Matilda (
* ''[[My Uncle Oswald]]''
* ''[[Sometimes Never:
* ''[[The Twits]]''
* ''[[The Witches]]''
...but he has written many, many, many more, perhaps most notably ''Going Solo'', a non-fiction book about his experiences as an RAF fighter pilot in [[WWII]] (Oh, and he wrote the screenplay to ''[[
He also wrote various collections of fiction for adults, most of which had a lot of similarly black humour, and most of which was quite disturbing. Let's just say, before he was known as a master of children's stories, he was known as "The Master of the Macabre", and it shows. A lot. Many of these stories have been adapted into ''[[Tales of the Unexpected]]''.
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