Early life Childhood. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene. Its tempting to focus on perfection, especially if you want to become a better writer. But as youll learn in this post, its a bad way to get better. Yahoo Lifestyle is your source for style, beauty, and wellness, including health, inspiring stories, and the latest fashion trends. The Eagles beat Washington today, 3017, but the scoreline was a little misleading Philly scored two touchdowns in the first half, then only managed field goals. Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' title='Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' />Roald Dahl Wikipedia. Roald Dahl. Dahl in 1. Born1. 91. 6 0. September 1. Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UKDied. Keep-calm-and-carry-on-scan.jpg' alt='Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' title='Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' />November 1. Oxford, England, UKOccupation. Novelist, poet, screenwriter. Period. 19. 421. Genre. Childrens, adults literature, horror, mystery, fantasy. Spouse. Patricia Nealm. Felicity Ann dAbreu Croslandm. Children. 5, including Tessa, Ophelia, and Lucy Dahl. Relatives. Nicholas LogsdailnephewSophie DahlgranddaughterPhoebe DahlgranddaughterMilitary career. Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' title='Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants Pdf Writer' />Allegiance United Kingdom. Servicebranch. British Army AugustNovember 1. Royal Air Force November 1. August 1. 94. 6Years of service. Rank. Squadron leader. Battleswars. World War IIWebsiteroalddahl. Roald Dahl English ,1Norwegian rul dl 1. September 1. 91. 6  2. November 1. 99. 0 was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 2. Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence in the 1. He has been referred to as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 2. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1. World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards Childrens Author of the Year in 1. In 2. 00. 8, The Times placed Dahl 1. The 5. 0 greatest British writers since 1. Dahls short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his childrens books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His books champion the kind hearted, and feature an underlying warm sentiment. Dahls works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits and Georges Marvellous Medicine. His adult works include Tales of the Unexpected. Early life. Childhood. Roald Dahl was born in 1. Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl ne Hesselberg. Dahls father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg in Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1. His mother came over and married his father in 1. Dahl was named after the Norwegian polar explorer. Roald Amundsen. His first language was Norwegian, which he spoke at home with his parents and his sisters Astri, Alfhild and Else. Dahl and his sisters were raised in the Lutheran faith, and were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped. Mrs Pratchetts former sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff has a blue plaque commemorating the mischief a young Roald Dahl played on her by putting a mouse in the gobstoppers jar. In 1. 92. 0, when Dahl was three years old, his seven year old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. Weeks later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 5. With the option of returning to Norway to live with relatives, Dahls mother decided to remain in Wales, because Harald had wished to have their children educated in British schools, which he considered the worlds best. Dahl first attended the Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends one named Thwaites were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop,6 which was owned by a mean and loathsome old woman called Mrs Pratchett. This was known among the five boys as the Great Mouse Plot of 1. A favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, Dahl would later refer to gobstoppers in his literary creation, Everlasting Gobstopper. Thereafter, he transferred to a boarding school in England St Peters in Weston super Mare. Roalds parents had wanted him to be educated at an English public school and, because of a then regular ferry link across the Bristol Channel, this proved to be the nearest. His time at St Peters was an unpleasant experience for him. He was very homesick and wrote to his mother every week but never revealed to her his unhappiness. Only after her death in 1. In 2. 01. 6, to mark the centenary of Dahls birth, his letters to his mother were abridged and broadcast as BBC Radio 4s Book of the Week. Dahl wrote about his time at St Peters in his autobiography Boy Tales of Childhood. Repton School. From 1. Repton School in Derbyshire. Dahl had unhappy experiences of the school, describing an environment of ritual cruelty and acting as personal servants for older boys along with terrible beatings these violent experiences are described in Donald Sturrocks biography of Dahl. There are echoes of these darker experiences in Dahls writings and his hatred of cruelty and corporal punishment. According to Boy Tales of Childhood, a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury and went on to crown. Queen Elizabeth II in 1. However, according to Dahls biographer Jeremy Treglown,2. May 1. 93. 3, a year after Fisher had left Repton and the headmaster concerned was in fact J. T. Christie, Fishers successor. This caused Dahl to have doubts about religion and even about God. He was never seen as a particularly talented writer in his school years, with one of his English teachers writing in his school report I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended. Dahl was exceptionally tall, reaching 6 feet 6 inches 1. He played a number of sports, including cricket, football, golf and was made captain of the squash team. As well as having a passion for literature, he also developed an interest in photography1. During his years at Repton, Cadbury, the chocolate company, would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. Dahl would dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr Cadbury himself and this proved the inspiration for him to write his third childrens book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1. Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent the majority of his summer holidays with his mothers family in Norway, and wrote about many happy memories from those expeditions in Boy Tales of Childhood, such as when he replaced the tobacco in his halfsisters fiancs pipe with goat droppings. He only experienced one unhappy memory of his holidays in Norway at around the age of eight, when his adenoids were removed by a doctor. His childhood and first job selling kerosene in Midsomer Norton and surrounding villages in Somerset are subjects in Boy Tales of Childhood. After school. After finishing his schooling, in August 1. Style Fellowship The Promise Rapidshare here. Dahl crossed the Atlantic on the RMS Nova Scotia and hiked through Newfoundland with the Public Schools Exploring Society. In July 1. 93. 4, Dahl joined the Shell Petroleum Company. Following two years of training in the United Kingdom, he was transferred first to Mombasa, Kenya, then to Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika now Tanzania. Along with the only two other Shell employees in the entire territory, he lived in luxury in the Shell House outside Dar es Salaam, with a cook and personal servants. While out on assignments supplying oil to customers across Tanganyika, he encountered black mambas and lions, among other wildlife. Fighter ace. In August 1.