Dutch painter, illustrator and writer.
Born May 22nd, 1923 in The Hague. [ref]
Died January 25th, 2005 at 81 years old in The Hague. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel