Zwagerman fascinated by suicide – Telegraaf.nl

In February this year, Joost Zwagerman donated his entire literary archive the Literary Museum in The Hague. In retrospect, a bad omen. It seems to have been the prelude to his self-chosen death. Zwagerman (51) had suffered for years from depression and also wrote about it, including in De Volkskrant

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Joost Zwagerman was fascinated by the phenomenon of suicide. He has articles and even a book by their own hands transcribed.

In this work he lets family members of suicide bombers in the word. “I realize that children of suicides more likely also ever manually save himself.”

The author found it a difficult matter. He said he now amassed a sizeable library suicide. “For example, I discovered that poets of all artists are most prone to suicide. They hit 35 times by hand to themselves as ordinary people.

Zwagerman admitted to be very influenced by the attempt of his father and friend. “I can be a caesura in my life applying for these suicides and then

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