About Frans Pointl
Lived 1933 – 2015 (aged 82). Frans Pointl was a Dutch writer.
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.
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Who was Frans Pointl?
Dutch writer (1933–2015)
When was Frans Pointl born?
Frans Pointl was born on 1 August 1933 in Amsterdam.
When did Frans Pointl die?
Frans Pointl died on 1 October 2015 in Amsterdam.
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Frans Pointl was a writer.
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Frans Pointl was Dutch.
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