![]() ![]() ![]() Pupils at Repton were invited to trial chocolate bars, a memory that stayed with Dahl throughout his life, inspiring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Wanting the best for her only son, his mother sent him to boarding school - first to St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare then, in 1929, to Repton - where many bizarre and memorable events would later be recounted in Boy. But his early years were blighted by the tragic deaths of his older sister, Astri, and his father. 1 storyteller.īorn in Llandaff, Wales, on 13th September 1916 to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Dahl was named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole just four years earlier. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and a treasury of original, evergreen, and beloved children’s books. ![]()
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