Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a British author of children's literature. – Roald Dahl in an interview with The Independent There aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media-jolly clever thing to do-that's why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.' It's the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it.

I'm certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. 'They killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. Stine's Goosebumps had already been expurgated, without the author's knowledge or consent. In the following month is was 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 revealed that R. Various authors, politicians, and organisations have provided commentary on the controversy. 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 'The Roald Dahl Classic Collection', but did not retract the revisions. 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. Dahl's comments received renewed attention in the years leading up to the controversy, with his family issuing an apology for his comments in 2020.ĭuring his lifetime Dahl had enjoined his publishers not to 'so much as change a single comma in one of my books', but 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. Following Dahl's death in 1990, multiple works of his were examined further, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and Dahl's short story collection Switch Bitch. Reviewing Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon War, Dahl used several antisemitic tropes, including claiming that the United States was 'dominated by Jewish financial institutions'. Puffin Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, expurgated various works by British author Roald Dahl in 2023, sparking controversy.ĭahl has received criticism for anti-Semitic comments and his use of racial and sexual stereotypes. Works by Roald Dahl (pictured in 1988) were expurgated in 2023.

Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Roald Dahl