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Roald Dahl was born at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl .
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In 1939, as World War II loomed, plans were made to round up the hundreds of Germans in Dar-es-Salaam. Dahl was made a lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, commanding a platoon of Askaris, indigenous troops serving in the colonial army.
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Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal at Trinity Church in New York City. Their marriage lasted for 30 years and they had five children.
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Dahl's children's works are usually told from the point of view of a child. They typically involve adult villains who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one "good" adult to counteract the villain. His famous novel for children named "Matilda". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#Children's fiction
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Roald Dahl died at the age of 74 of a rare cancer of the blood, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford,[78] and was buried in the cemetery at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.
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