Wednesday, October 2, 2013

List of Awards won by Roald Dahl


This is a list of all the awards Roald Dahl won (that I know of), organized by year.

·         1954     Wins Edgar Allen Poe award and Mystery Writers of America award.
·         1959     Wins second Edgar Allan Poe Award and second Mystery Writers of America Award.
·         1972     Wins New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
·         1973     Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
·         1975     Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator).
·         1978     Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny the Champion of the World).
·         1979     Wins California Young Reader Medal (for Danny the Champion of the World).
·         1980     Wins third Mystery Writers of America award.
·         1982     Wins Federation of Children's Book Groups Award (for The BFG) and Massachusetts Children's Award (for James and the Giant Peach).
·         1983     Wins New York Times Outstanding Books Award, Federation of Children's Book Groups Award, and Whitbread Award (all for The Witches). Also wins World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement Award.
·         1984     Wins Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis (for The BFG).
·         1985     Wins Kurt Maschler award runner–up (for The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me) and Boston Globe/Horn Book nonfiction honor citation (for Boy – Tales of Childhood).
·         1986     Wins West Australian Award (for The Witches) and International Board on Books for Young People awards for Norwegian and German translations (for The BFG).
·         1988     Wins Federation of Children's Book Groups Award (for Matilda).
·         1990     Wins Smarties Award (for Esio Trot).
·         1997     Wins Good Book Guide "Best Books of the Past 20 Years" (for The BFG).
·         1998     Matilda voted "Nation's Favorite Children's Book" in BBC Bookworm Poll.
·         2000     Wins Millennium Children's Book Award and Blue Peter Book Award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

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