Roald Dahl was born in Wales .
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie , Fairwater Road , in Llandaff , Cardiff , Wales to Norwegian parents , Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl ( née Hesselberg ) .Philip Howard , `` Dahl , Roald ( 1916–1990 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , 2004 Dahl 's father had emigrated to Britain from Sarpsborg , Norway , and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s .
Roald Dahl