Salman Rushdie attacks Dahl rewrites as ‘absurd censorship’

Novelist Salman Rushdie led condemnations Monday of Roald Dahl’s children’s books being re-edited for a modern audience, calling it “absurd censorship” by “bowdlerising sensitivity police”. Publishers Puffin have made hundreds of reported changes to characters and language in Dahl’s stories including making the diminutive Oompa-Loompas in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gender neutral and calling […]

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