LIFE AND WORK OF ROALD DAHL

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Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in 4____________ of Norwegian

9_____________. He was educated in 8______________ before
starting work for the Shell Oil Company in 5________________.
He began writing after a “monumental bash on the 2_____________”
sustained as a(n) R.A.F.*
fighter pilot during the 6______________ World War.

His stories which have received extraordinary acclaim have been

7______________
into many languages and have been 3_____________ ** all over the
world.
Roald Dahl is considered one of the most successful and well-known of
all children’s 1_____________.
Roald Dahl 10_____________ in November 1990, at the age of
11_____________.
The Times called him “one of the most widely read and influential
writers of our generation”.
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* RAF, the: abbreviation for the Royal Air Force, the part of the UK´s military
forces that uses planes.
** a book that sells in very large numbers.

SOURCE: Dahl, Roald; “Someone like you”, Penguin books, 1961

Dahl, Roald; “Charlie and the Chocolate factory”, Puffin books, 1995