Awards

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).