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<html> <head> <title>Roald Dahl</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" 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href="/lists/915/000105600/" class=proflink>1916</a> Birthplace: Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales Died: <a href="/lists/214/000106893/" class=proflink>23-Nov</a>-<a href="/lists/500/000106182/" class=proflink>1990</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/860/000069653/" class=proflink>Oxford, England</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/347/000069140/" class=proflink>Infection</a> Remains: Buried, St. Peter and St. Paul Churchyard, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: AuthorNationality: England Executive summary: James and the Giant PeachMilitary service: RAF (80th squadron, WWII)Father: Harald Dahl (d. 1920) Mother: Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg Sister: Astri Dahl (d. 1920 appendicitis) Wife: <a href="/people/226/000042100/">Patricia Neal</a> (actress, m. 2-Jul-1953, div. 17-Nov-1983, five children) Daughter: Tessa Daughter: Olivia (d. age 7, measles) Son: Theo Daughter: Ophelia Daughter: Lucy     High School: Repton School     <a href="/honors/622/000050472/">Edgar Allan Poe Award</a> Best Episode in a TV Series, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, "Skin" (1980)     <a href="/honors/622/000050472/">Edgar Allan Poe Award</a> Best Short Story, for "The Landlady" (1960)     <a href="/honors/622/000050472/">Edgar Allan Poe Award</a> Best Short Story, for "Someone Like You" (1954)     <a href="/honors/539/000091266/">World Fantasy Award</a> 1983 Lifetime Achievement     <a href="/event/307/000111971/">Hip Replacement Surgery</a>     <a href="/event/661/000088397/">Plane Crash</a> ran out of fuel, Egypt (19-Sep-1941)     <a href="/event/214/000062028/">Caught Fire</a> (19-Sep-1941)     <a href="/event/675/000401469/">Brain Injury</a>     <a href="/lists/594/000044462/">Norwegian Ancestry</a>     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/788/000064596/">Arthritis</a> Official Website: <a href="http://www.roalddahl.com/" target=_blank>http://www.roalddahl.com/</a> Author of books: The Gremlins (<tt>1943</tt>, juvenile) Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (<tt>1946</tt>, juvenile, short stories) Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (<tt>1948</tt>, novel) Someone Like You (<tt>1953</tt>, short stories) Kiss Kiss (<tt>1960</tt>, short stories) James and the Giant Peach (<tt>1961</tt>, juvenile) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (<tt>1964</tt>, juvenile) The Magic Finger (<tt>1966</tt>, juvenile) Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (<tt>1969</tt>, short stories) Fantastic Mr Fox (<tt>1970</tt>, juvenile) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (<tt>1972</tt>, juvenile) Switch Bitch (<tt>1974</tt>, short stories) Danny the Champion of the World (<tt>1975</tt>, juvenile) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (<tt>1977</tt>, juvenile) The Enormous Crocodile (<tt>1978</tt>, juvenile) The Best of Roald Dahl (<tt>1978</tt>, juvenile, short stories) Tales of the Unexpected (<tt>1979</tt>, juvenile, short stories) More Tales of the Unexpected (<tt>1980</tt>, juvenile, short stories) My Uncle Oswald (<tt>1979</tt>, novel) The Twits (<tt>1980</tt>, juvenile) George's Marvelous Medicine (<tt>1981</tt>, juvenile) The BFG (<tt>1982</tt>, juvenile) The Witches (<tt>1983</tt>, juvenile) Boy: Tales of Childhood (<tt>1984</tt>, memoirs) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (<tt>1985</tt>, juvenile) Two Fables (<tt>1986</tt>, juvenile, short stories) Matilda (<tt>1988</tt>, juvenile) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (<tt>1989</tt>, juvenile, short stories) Esio Trot (<tt>1989</tt>, juvenile) The Great Switcheroo (<tt>1990</tt>, novel) The Collected Short Stories of Dahl (<tt>1991</tt>, juvenile, short stories) The Minpins (<tt>1991</tt>, juvenile) The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (<tt>1991</tt>, juvenile) The Great Automatic Grammatizator (<tt>1997</tt>, juvenile, short stories) The Mildenhall Treasure (<tt>2000</tt>, juvenile, short stories) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" 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