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- LONDON — New editions of the works of Roald Dahl — the best-selling British novelist whose children’s classics include “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “James and the Giant Peach” — have been rewritten in an effort to make them less offensive and more inclusive, according to a representative from the author’s estate.
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Feb 20, 2023 · Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language. New editions of the best-selling author’s children’s classics, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” have...
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Feb 21, 2023 · Books by popular children's author Roald Dahl are being changed. Amongst the alterations are the removal of words such as "ugly" and "fat".
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Dahl, who died at age 74, had a history of making anti-Semitic comments and including racist tropes and language in his works. For example, he originally wrote characters like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Oompa Loompas as an African Pygmy tribe. In James and the Giant Peach, the Grasshopper declares at one point: “I’d rather be fried alive a...
According to The Independent, hundreds of changes have been made to Dahl’s body of work. These edits include the Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach becoming Cloud-People, while in The Witches, the use of “old hags” has been replaced with “old crows.” In Matilda, a mention of the English novelist Rudyard Kipling has also been replaced with Jane ...
So far, only changes to the English-language versions of Dahl’s works have been announced. On Tuesday, the French publishers of Dahl’s books ruled out any changes, The Guardian reported. “This rewrite only concerns Britain,” a spokesperson for the French publishers Gallimard said. “We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no ...
Among the critics of the rewrites are Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses. On Feb. 18, Rushie tweeted,“Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Da...
In March 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six Dr. Seuss books such as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoowould no longer be published as they contained racist and insensitive imagery. The organization told the Associated Pressin a statement that the books portray people in “hurtful and wrong” ways and the ce...
Feb 20, 2023 · Roald Dahl ’s books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive, including descriptions of characters’ physical appearances. Publisher Puffin hired sensitivity readers to...
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May 30, 2023 · Recent revisions made to Roald Dahl's children's novels sparked a controversy over censorship. However, the rewriting and editing of books is nothing new, writes Neil Armstrong.
Penguin Random House announced on Friday it will republish Roald Dahl’s children’s books in original, or “classic,” form following ongoing editing controversy.
Feb 20, 2023 · A half-century after being published, several children’s books by world-famous British author Roald Dahl are being revised to change language that may be offensive to some, sparking accusations...
