Roald Dahl

**Roald Dahl** (Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, 13. rujna 1916. -  Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 23. studenog 1990.), britanski književnik norveškog porijekla.

Iako je kao RAF-ovac ozlijeđen u II. svjetskom ratu, počeo je pisati o svojim zgodama u Saturday Evening Postu. Prvi njegovi roman bio je „Gremlini“ (1943), napisan za Walta Disneya, te je iz njega nastao uspješan film. Nakon njega uslijedio je roman koji ga je proslavio, "Charlie i tvornica čokolade", ekraniziran dva puta: 1. put  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) i 2. put Charlie i tvornica čokolade. Od romana za odrasle nalazimo „Someone like You“ i „ Kiss, Kiss“. Uz Charlieja i tvornicu čokolade nalazimo i sljedeće romana: „Vještice", Matilda „BFG“, „James and the giant peach“. Od knjiga mu je također ekranizirana „Matilda“(1996.) knjiga o djevojčici koja ima nadnaravne sposobnosti. Napisao je scenarije za „You live only twice“, popularni film o najpoznatijem agentu na svijetu, agentu 007 u službi Njenog veličanstva i film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Poznat je po suradnji sa Engleskim ilustratorom Quentinom Blakeom čije ilustracije krase gotovo sva njegova izdanja. Umro je u Oxfordu

## Dela

### Priče za decu
# *The Gremlins* (1943)
# *James and the Giant Peach* (1961)&nbsp;– Film: *James and the Giant Peach* (live-action/animated) (1996)
# *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (1964)&nbsp;– Films: *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971) and *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (2005)
# *The Magic Finger* (1 June 1966)&nbsp;- Film: *The Magic Finger* (animated)
# *Fantastic Mr Fox* (9 December 1970)&nbsp;– Film: *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (animated) (2009)
# *Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator* (9 January 1972)&nbsp;– Sequel to *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*
# *Danny, the Champion of the World* (30 October 1975)&nbsp;– Film: *Danny the Champion of the World* (TV movie) (1989)
# *The Enormous Crocodile* (24 August 1978)&nbsp;- Film:*The Enormous Crocodile* (animated)
# *The Twits* (17 December 1980)
# *George's Marvellous Medicine* (21 May 1981)
# *The BFG* (14 October 1982)&nbsp;– Films: *The BFG]* (animated) (1989), *The BFG* (2016)
# *The Witches* (27 October 1983)&nbsp;– Film: *The Witches* (1990)
# *The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me* (26 September 1985)
# *Matilda]* (21 April 1988)&nbsp;– Film: *Matilda* (1996)
# *Esio Trot* (19 April 1989)&nbsp;– Film: *Roald Dahl's Esio Trot* (2014)
# *The Vicar of Nibbleswicke* (9 May 1990)
# *The Minpins* (8 August 1991)

;Poezija za decu
#*Revolting Rhymes* (10 June 1982)
#*Dirty Beasts* (25 October 1984)
#*Rhyme Stew* (21 September 1989)

### Fantastika za odrasle
;Romani
# *Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen* (1948)
# *My Uncle Oswald* (1979)

;Kolekcije kratkih priča
# *Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying* (1946)
# *Someone Like You* (1953)
# *Lamb to the Slaughter* (1953)
# *Kiss Kiss* (1960)
# *Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl* (1969)
# *Switch Bitch* (1974)
# *The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More* (1977)
# *The Best of Roald Dahl* (1978)
# *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979)
# *More Tales of the Unexpected* (1980)
# *Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories* (1983). Edited with an introduction by Dahl.
# *The Roald Dahl Omnibus* (Dorset Press, 1986)
# *Two Fables* (1986). "Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia".
# *Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl* (1989)
# *The Collected Short Stories of Dahl* (1991)
# *The Roald Dahl Treasury* (1997)
# *The Great Automatic Grammatizator* (1997). (Known in the US as *The Umbrella Man and Other Stories*).
# *Skin And Other Stories* (2000)
# *Roald Dahl: Collected Stories* (2006)

See the alphabetical List of Roald Dahl short stories. See also *Roald Dahl: Collected Stories* for a complete, chronological listing.

### Nefikcija
# *The Mildenhall Treasure* (1946, 1977, 1999)
# *Boy&nbsp;– Tales of Childhood* (1984) Recollections up to the age of 20, looking particularly at schooling in Britain in the early part of the 20th century.
# *Going Solo* (1986) Continuation of his autobiography, in which he goes to work for Shell and spends some time working in Tanzania before joining the war effort and becoming one of the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion.
# *Measles, a Dangerous Illness* (1988)
# *Memories with Food at Gipsy House* (1991)
# *Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety* (1991)
# *My Year* (1993)
# *Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes* by Felicity Dahl, *et al.* (1994), a collection of recipes based on and inspired by food in Dahl's books, created by Roald & Felicity Dahl and Josie Fison
# *Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes* by Felicity Dahl, *et al.* (2001)

### Drame
# *The Honeys* (1955) Produced at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

### Filmski scriptovi
# *The Gremlins* (1943)
# *36 Hours* (1965)
# *You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]* (1967)
# *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]* (1968)
# *The Night Digger* (1971)
# *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971)

### Televizija
# *Way Out* (1961) Horror series hosted by Roald Dahl and produced by David Susskind
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "Lamb to the Slaughter" (1958)
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "Dip in the Pool" (1958)
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "Poison" (1958)
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "Man from the South" (1960) with Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" (1960)
# *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*: "The Landlady" (1961)
# *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979–1988), episodes written and introduced by Dahl

### Radio serijali
# *The Price of Fear*: William and Mary (1973)

## Reference

## Literatura
*Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39827 Retrieved 24 May 2006
*Donald Sturrock, *Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl*, Simon & Schuster, 2010.  (See the link to excerpts in "External Links", below.)
*Jeremy Treglown, *Roald Dahl: A Biography*, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. 

## Vanjske veze

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*Roald Dahl's darkest hour (biography excerpt)
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*Radio interview with Dahl in Norwegian by NRK (1975) 
*''The Irregulars, Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington,'' 2008, New York Times Review, 17 October 2008.
*February 2011 profile of Patricia Neal on V.O.A.
*Footage of Roald Dahl judging at the Whitbread book prize in 1982