Frans Pointl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frans Pointl

Dutch writer

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1933

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Oct-2015

Profession: writer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.