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Roald Dahl


UK flag (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.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Horror
 
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)
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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 (1981)
   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)
   Out of This World (2000) (with others)
   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)
   Fear (2017)
   Innocence (2017)
   Trickery (2017)
   War (2017)
   Deception (2018)
   Cruelty (2019)
   Great Stories for All Time by Two Master Storytellers (2022) (with Ruskin Bond)
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Anthologies edited
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Picture Books
   The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
   The Minpins (1991)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Beware of the Dog (2010)
   Bitch (2012)
   Royal Jelly (2012)
   Billy and the Minpins (2017)
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Short Stories
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Anthologies containing stories by Roald Dahl
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Short stories
Bitch
The Boy Who Talked with Animals
The Champion of the World
The Great Automatic Grammatizator [short story]
The Great Switcheroo [short story]
The Last Act
Lucky Break
The Mildenhall Treasure [short story]
Mr Botibol
Mr Feasey
Mr Hoddy
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
My Lady Love, My Dove
A Piece of Cake
The Ratcatcher
Rummins
The Soldier
The Swan
The Visitor
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Man from the South (1948)
The Wish (1948)
The Sound Machine (1949)
Taste (1951)
Dip in the Pool (1952)
Skin [short story] (1952)
Edward the Conqueror [short story] (1953)
Galloping Foxley (1953)
Lamb to the Slaughter [short story] (1953)
Neck (1953)
Poison (1953)
The Way Up to Heaven (1954)
Nunc Dimittis (1955)
Parson's Pleasure (1958)
A fine Son (1959)
Genesis and Catastrophe (1959)
Georgy Porgy (1959)
The Landlady (1959)
Pig (1959)
Royal Jelly [short story] (1959)
William and Mary (1959)
In the Ruins (1965)
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life [short story] (1974)
The Hitch-Hiker (1977)
The Butler (1980)
The Umbrella Man [short story] (1980)
Vengeance is Mine Inc. (1980)


Awards
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1978)
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1983)




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