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About Roald Dahl

In 2023, Puffin Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, expurgated various works by British author Roald Dahl, causing controversy.

During his lifetime, Dahl had urged his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of [his] books". On 19 February 2023 Puffin Books announced it had hired sensitivity readers over the span of three years to assess Dahl's works, rereleasing his work with multiple changes regarding Dahl's depiction of race, sex and character. A report from British newspaper The Telegraph determined that Puffin Books altered hundreds of passages in Dahl's work, including in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Witches. Facing backlash from readers and authors, on 23 February Puffin Books announced that Dahl's original publications would be released alongside the expurgated versions as "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection", but did not retract the revisions.

Various authors, politicians, and organisations have commented on the controversy. It was later announced that the works of Enid Blyton (author of The Famous Five) and Ian Fleming (author of James Bond) would be expurgated as well, and it was reported that R. L. Stine's Goosebumps had already been expurgated without the author's knowledge.

Roald Dahl writes about Children's fiction, Fiction, short story, London, Short stories, and short stories. Their best-known work is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

On FindMyTBR we track 95 books by Roald Dahl, 87 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A barátságos óriás, A Rare Recording of Roald Dahl, and Agu Trot (Colección Alfaguara Clásicos). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.