Roald+Dahl's+Biography

=Roald Dahl's Biography = = = =Early Years =
 * Roald Dahl was born September 13th 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His Norwegian father, Harald Dhal, owned a successful ship-broking business along with his friend Aadnesen. Before moving to Wales, Harald worked in Oslo and married Marie, a French girl who died after giving birth to their second child. In 1911 Harald remarried to Roald’s mother, Sofie Hesselberg. Roald was the only son of this second marriage. When Roald was only three years old, his father died, and three weeks later his elder sister Astri died as well of appendicitis. His mother was left alone to take care of her own four children, Alfhild, Roald, Else and Asta as well as two stepchildren.

He attended the Llandaff Cathedral School at the age of seven. His memories are described in the books “Boy” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Roald and his four friends recall all the trips to the sweet shop, gazing at the different jars of sweets and wondering and fantasizing about how they were made and the possible effects they had. When he was nine he was transferred to St. Peter’s Prep boarding school in Weston-Super-Mare. During his years here, he experienced awful situations and a severe homesickness. He wrote his mother once a week and continued doing this until she died, once Roald was 32 years old. Four years later, at the age of thirteen he changed school again, to the famous public school in Derbyshire, Repton. He was skilled at sports but constantly reprimanded because he couldn’t write as properly and express his thoughts in paper. An advantage of Repton was that it was close to Cadbury’s, one of England’s most famous chocolate factories. (Liukkonen, 2008)



At the age of eighteen, instead of going to college Roald joined the Public Schools Exploring Society’s expedition to Newfoundland. When he was 23 war started and he signed up with the Royal Air Force in Nairobi. He crashed in the Western Desert of Libya and explains his experiences of war in his book ‘Going Solo’.

In 1942, while living in Washington, he met Forester who published his first writings ‘Shot Over Libya.’ His first book for children was ‘The Gremlins’, adapted from a script written for Disney. For the first fifteen years of his career he only wrote adult’s stories, especially for SATURDAY EVENING POST. His most famous story is ‘Lamb to the Slaughter.’ He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America three times. Only once he became a father in the 1960s his career as a children’s books author began. (Roald Dahl, 2010) **

Later Years

 * Roald Dahl also is consider one of the most amazing authors in all the world, and something special about him is that in his house he had a small house under the garden, where every day he went and spend lots of hours thinking of new ideas and new books to right. In this small space he had a old chair that once ago he hated to do is to right in a computer, he like the old way. In here is were all the magic started, and how all of it was passed to pages and pages of his books that then will be readied by millions of kids and adults through the whole world. **




 * By the other side, Roald Dahl was an excellent husband and father. He first was married with Patricia Neal and actress of Hollywood in that time that in a meeting they were presented and they immediately got in love and married in 1953. They had to divide their time between England and North America going form one place to another. In this relationship Patricia and Roald had five children, Theo, Tessa, Ophelia, Lucy and Olivia that sadly died really young at the age of seven because a problem in the brain. After this one day he meets women called "Liccy "that had lived in his same street when they were little. They got in love, and because of her Roald Dahl divorced Patricia and in 1983 he got married for a second time. In his personal life he suffers a lot because many persons that he loves had die. But beside this his families were the most important factor that help him be the incredible author he was, because all the ideas and imagination of his books came form the stories he make up every night for her kids to sleep. **

And finally Roald Dahl's passions were infinite; he had many things in which he spends all his time and money. He got into arts, medical investigations, wine, golf, orchids, onions, music and much other. One of his most important hobbies was to help people with problems, and that needed help, that was one of the thing in which he enjoin the most dong in his life. But sadly this amazing writer die in 1980 because he was diagnostic a blood disorder Myelo Dysplastic anaemia. He dies before he finishes righting his last three books named The Vicar Of Nibbleswick, My year, and The Roald Dahl Cookbook.

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