Changes were made to some of Dahl’s internationally popular books such as the “Matilda” and “The BFG” Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday criticised the “airbrushing” of literature after a newspaper report showed books by children’s author Roald DahlThe Daily Telegraph on Friday published an article showing hundreds of changes to some of Dahl’s internationally popular books such as the 1988 story Matilda, The BFG and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory .
Dahl died aged 74 in 1990. In 2020, his family apologised for anti-Semitic remarks he had made, saying the comments were “incomprehensible to us”. Publisher Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Children’s, did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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