Stan Lauryssens is a Belgian writer. He lives in Antwerp and London. As a journalist in the 1970s and 1980s, Lauryssens travelled the world and claims he interviewed Jack Higgins Harold Robbins, Catherine Cookson, Konsalik, Thor Heyerdahl, Charles de Gaulle and Andy Warhol. He allegedly had prolonged meetings with Hitler?s henchmen: Karl D�nitz, Sir Oswald Mosley, Leni Riefenstahl, Adolf Eichmann?s family, and Otto G�nsche and has written five books about the Nazis. Lauryssens wrote the book Dal� and I about his experiences with the surrealist painter. Room 9 Entertainment in Hollywood bought film rights. Academy Award nominee Andrew Niccol rewrote the screenplay and will direct the film, entitled Dali & I: The Surreal Story. Lauryssens will be played by Cillian Murphy, with Al Pacino as Dal�. His non-fiction books were serialised in The Mail on Sunday and are published in English, French, Italian and Polish and have gained cult status in Japan. His first thriller, Black Snow, won him the Hercule Poirot Award 2002 for best crime fiction of the year, and was followed by Dead Corpses and Red Roses, Deader Than Dead Too, More than Naked, No Time for Tears and "The Sooner You Die". 

January 1st, 1946 in Antwerp (Age 78)