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Roald Dahl was born on the 13th of September 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. His parents were Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl, both Norwegian immigrants who had settled in Britain during the 1880s.
On the 19th of September 1940, while attempting to land near Mersa Matruh due to low fuel and darkness, his aircraft crashed into a boulder. He suffered a fractured skull and smashed nose which left him blind for six weeks following massive brain swelling.
Dahl stated that his writing career began after the monumental bash on his head when his plane came down. He met Major Harold Balfour at a London club in late March 1942 who appointed him assistant air attaché at British Embassy in Washington D.C. The Saturday Evening Post published his story Shot Down Over Libya dated the 1st of August 1942 earning US$1,000 payment.
His stories typically involve adult villains hating mistreating children featuring at least one good adult counteracting evil forces possibly referencing abuse experienced boarding schools attended. Children triumph over old greedy wicked according to critics like Amanda Craig who noted unequivocal stance regarding kind young versus greedy wicked Anna Leskiewicz wrote lasting appeal resulted exceptional talent wriggling way into children fantasies fears laying page anarchic delight.
In 1983 Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton God Cried picture book siege West Beirut Israeli army during Lebanon War article stating Jews switched rapidly much-pitied victims barbarous murderers appeared Literary Review subject media comment criticism wrote Clifton book make readers violently anti-Israeli stating not anti-Semitic anti-Israel. In 1990 he spoke again Lebanon invasion claiming killed twenty-two thousand civilians bombed Beirut hushed newspapers primarily Jewish-owned certainly anti-Israeli become antisemitic getting Jewish person another country like England strongly supporting Zionism think should see sides same old thing know Jews rest things non-Jewish publishers anywhere control media jolly clever thing do.