The books have won numerous prizes including the Red House Children's Book Award, 2 Blue Peter book awards for Best Book With Pictures, and the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize Award.
Other authors had inspired him to write for fun (Roald Dahl in particular) but it was Sue Townsend who became his true role model.
He is said to be best known for the novels Híbýli vindanna (1995; Where the Winds Dwell) and Lífsins tré (1996; Tree of Life) He has done numerous translations of writers such as Roald Dahl and Heinrich Böll.
Cameo Theatre featured adaptations from the short stories of Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, and others.
Her first marriage dissolved, Felicity Crosland married, secondly, the British writer Roald Dahl in 1983.
It was based on similarly titled children's book Heksene by Roald Dahl known in English as The Witches.
Bux was the subject of a 1950 film titled Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic, and his apparent ability to see while blindfolded with dough balls strongly influenced British author Roald Dahl in his short story of Henry Sugar, a man who was taught to develop the same powers.
In 2010, Ward originated the role of Miss Honey in the new musical Matilda, based on the book Matilda by Roald Dahl and the movie Matilda in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Rowe's radio drama work includes Avoid London, Loving, Forget Me Not, One Chord Wonders, Roald Dahl's The Witches and To Sir with Love.
Wiltshire began his career by setting up his own Art Studio in 1988, employing a team of artists to create unique figurative works, including fine figurative work for Wedgwood potteries, figurative work for BBC Television portraying the work of artist Quentin Blake and Roald Dahl, and head portrait work for Spitting Image.
His works are performed regularly by leading performers in the United Kingdom and abroad, most popular among which are the orchestral setting of Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood and the Violin Concerto.
Additionally, footage of snowy mountains were sampled from the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches.
The author Roald Dahl landed his RAF Hurricane at an airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941 and describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography 'Going Solo'.
His best known work includes Spindoe (1968), the controversial Big Breadwinner Hog (1969) and many adaptations, including M.R. James' Lost Hearts, Jane Eyre, Eyeless in Gaza and a considerable number of screenplays on Roald Dahl's short stories for Tales of the Unexpected.
Many people have mistaken the artist for Quentin Blake, best known for illustrating children's books written by Roald Dahl.
Other television credits include, Minder, Bergerac, The Kenny Everett Television Show and Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.
In many interviews, he recalled that the literary heroes of his childhood were Roald Dahl and Stephen King, who created a love for grim and dark fiction.
The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and a type of real life candy bar inspired by the fictional confection.
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There have been attempts, yes, but the market is full of international authors like Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and the popular Sweet Valley, R.L Stine, Famous Five, Hardy Boys etc. series.
The musical is based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl.
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Based on the children's novel of the same name, written by Roald Dahl, it was directed by Sam Mendes.
It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake.
His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick.
Her history of the organization known as British Security Coordination (BSC) chronicles the exploits of a charm brigade that included such recruits as Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy as well as the head of BSC, William Stephenson.
Other documentaries by Bridcut include studies of Queen Elizabeth II, Rudolf Nureyev, Roald Dahl and Hillary Clinton.
Millicent Rogers was romantically linked to a number of notable men throughout her life, including author Roald Dahl, actor Clark Gable, the author Ian Fleming, the Prince of Wales, Prince Serge Obolensky, and an unknown "heir to the Italian throne".
Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Brian P. Cleary, and Spike Milligan.
Among more recent authors, A. J. Cronin, Lemony Snicket, A. F. Coniglio, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, as well as some less well-known authors of famous orphans like Little Orphan Annie have used orphans as major characters.
He has also translated a large number of authors, including Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Hardy, Harvey Fierstein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Roald Dahl, Mary Shelley, Javier Tomeo, Arthur Miller, and Eric Bogosian.
In 1989, it was used as the home of millionaire Victor Hazell (Robbie Coltrane) in the film version of the Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World.
A 1966 Mirisch Productions World War I war film with the title starring Gregory Peck and Ian McKellen, directed by David Miller with a screenplay by Roald Dahl was abandoned after 5 weeks filming in Switzerland.
The Golden Ticket is an opera based on Roald Dahl’s classic book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by the contemporary American composer Peter Ash, with a libretto by Donald Sturrock.
The band's name is taken from extraterrestrial creatures in Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.