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Occupation
  
Writer

Nationality
  
Dutch


Name
  
Frans Pointl

Role
  
Writer

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Born
  
1 August 1933Amsterdam, Netherlands (
1933-08-01
)

Died
  
October 1, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Frans Pointl (1 August 1933 – 1 October 2015) was a Dutch writer.

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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"), was 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.

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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.

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References

Frans Pointl Wikipedia


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