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Aug 01, 1933 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Died on 01 Oct 2015 (aged 82)
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About Frans Pointl
- Frans Pointl (1 August 1933 – 1 October 2015) was a Dutch writer.Pointl was born in 1933 in Amsterdam, the son of a Jewish mother and an Austrian father.
- During World War II he went in hiding.
- He only began publishing later in life; his debut, De kip die over de soep vloog ("The chicken that flew over the soup"), is a collection of autobiographical stories that also describe that time.
- The book was an instant success and earned him a nomination for the ECI Literatuurprijs.He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home in Amsterdam but continued to write.
- His last book, De laatste kamer ("The last room"), was published in 2013.
- He wrote of longing for death: "Being old is a chronic disease.
- Every night before I go to sleep I hope to slip into eternity.
- I've already written my epitaph: 'Finally liberated from people'".
- Pointl died on 1 October 2015.
