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PARIS - The French publishers of author Roald Dahl on Tuesday ruled out any changes to the late Briton’s translated booksThe Daily Telegraph said last week that publishers Puffin had made hundreds of changes to characters and language in Mr Dahl’s stories for children including making the diminutive Oompa-Loompas in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gender neutral and calling Augustus Gloop enormous rather than fat.
Twit in “The Twits” is also no longer ugly, but beastly instead, while the Cloud-Men in “James and the Giant Peach” are now “Cloud-People”.“We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no plans to do so today,” she told AFP. Gallimard first published “James et La Grosse Peche” in 1966, and “Charlie et la Chocolaterie” in 1967. Both have seen several new editions since.
Although less famous than in the English-speaking world, Mr Dahl’s children’s books have a loyal following in France and are all available in Gallimard’s Folio collection of young people’s literature.
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