WRITER

Roald Dahl

1916 - 1990

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Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".Dahl was born in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents, and spent most of his life in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roald Dahl has received more than 20,955,678 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Roald Dahl is the 197th most popular writer (up from 249th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 193rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Writer.

Roald Dahl is most famous for his children's books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / General
<p><b>'Weelcome, ma Wee freends!<br>Weelcome TAE the CHOCOLATE WORKS!'</b></p><p>When Mr Wullie Wonka invites five bairns ben intae his warld-famous chocolate factory, some o them turn oot tae be spoilt wee bampots.</p><p>For Chairlie Baffie, the tour o Wonka’s chocolate works is the adventure o a lifetime. Has Violet Boakregarde bitten aff mair than she can chaw? Will Mike Teeveeheid finally end up on TV? Will Chairlie go UP AND OOT in Wullie Wonka’s Muckle Gless Lift?</p><p>Find oot in Matthew Fitt’s gallus new Scots translation o Roald Dahl’s classic story <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>.</p>
19645 / 5
The BFG
1982
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
1972
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Children's stories
Mr Fox steals food from the horrible farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean - one fat, one short, one lean. These three crooks concoct a plan to dig Mr Fox out of his home, but they don't realize how truly fantastic Mr Fox is, or how far he'll go to save his family . . . www.roalddahl.com
19705 / 5
Matilda
1900
James and the Giant Peach
1675

Page views of Roald Dahls by language

Over the past year Roald Dahl has had the most page views in the with 3,035,704 views, followed by Spanish (325,587), and French (240,845). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (777.71%), Korean (256.62%), and Cantonese (168.42%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roald Dahl ranks 197 out of 7,302. Before him are Janusz Korczak, Lu Xun, Al-Masudi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, and Luís de Camões. After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, and Anna Wintour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Roald Dahl ranks 6. Before him are François Mitterrand, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Edward Heath, Kirk Douglas, and Elena Ceaușescu. After him are Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, Aldo Moro, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Gough Whitlam. Among people deceased in 1990, Roald Dahl ranks 4. Before him are Rajneesh, Lev Yashin, and Greta Garbo. After him are Leonard Bernstein, Louis Althusser, Alberto Moravia, Ava Gardner, B. F. Skinner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Paulette Goddard, and Sarah Vaughan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roald Dahl ranks 138 out of 8,785. Before him are Bobby Charlton (1937), Edward VII (1841), Henry VI of England (1421), William of Ockham (1285), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), and George IV of the United Kingdom (1762). After him are Michael Caine (1933), William Blake (1757), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Cat Stevens (1948), Howard Carter (1874), and Eric Clapton (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Roald Dahl ranks 18. Before him are Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), H. G. Wells (1866), and Aldous Huxley (1894). After him are William Blake (1757), Anna Wintour (1949), J. K. Rowling (1965), John Milton (1608), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759).

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