LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday criticized the “airbrushing” of literature after a newspaper report showed books by children’s author…
The 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” .Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Dahl died aged 74 in 1990. In 2020 his family apologized for anti-Semitic remarks he had made, saying the comments were “incomprehensible to us”. “Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text,” said a spokesperson for the Roald Dahl Story Company.
Across several different books, the edits the newspaper reported addressed dated gender stereotypes, swapping a reference to women working as typists for “working as a top scientist,” and changed language relating to mental health – in one instance substituting “furious” for “crazy.”
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