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Publisher Puffin removed hundreds of words such as ‘fat’ and ‘flabby’ from beloved Dahl titles

There are issues with the children’s book writer, but they’re not the words “fat" or "men"

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday on its Telegram channel.

Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79

Although several of his best-known children’s books were first published in the 1960s, Roald Dahl is among the most popular authors for young people today. The recent decision by publisher Puffin, in conjunction with The Roald Dahl Story Company, to make several hundred revisions to new editions of his novels…

Downing Street said works of art should be preserved and not ‘airbrushed’ for modern audiences.

PM opposes edits to children’s classics to remove material deemed offensive

Downing Street speaks out as debate rages over removal of colourful language from some of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books

SIR Salman Rushdie knows about upfront censorship: last year he was nearly killed by a man who said he disliked his views on Islam and he spent a decade in hiding after a fatwa from Iran.