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Happy Birthday Roald Dahl (1916)

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. He 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 lived for most of his life in England. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He became a fighter pilot and, subsequently, an intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world’s best-selling authors. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the British Book Awards‘ Children’s Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of „The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945“. In 2021, Forbes ranked him the top-earning dead celebrity. We celebrate this remarkable author with an AI generated image of one of his books …

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Happy Birthday Terry Pratchett (1948)

Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humourist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett’s first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK’s best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66. We celebrate his birthday with an AI generated graffiti of him …

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… is part of JHCorporate. All translations were carried out by englishlanguageservices.de. All images used are in selective coloration and all graphic design and implementation was done by Selldon Photography (www.selldon.de).

… ist Teil von JHCorporate. Alle Übersetzungen sind von englishlanguageservices.de. Alle Bilder sind in Selektiver Koloration gehalten. Graphik und Design sind von Selldon Photography (www. selldon.de).