page_title: Frans Sammut
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Frans Sammut / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: When Bonaparte a' Malte was being translated, Frans Sammut rewrote huge chunks of the original Maltese text.
context_page_description: Frans Sammut was a Maltese novelist and non-fiction writer.
context_section_description: Frans Sammut's famous last words were: “My wife and I should be going to Jerusalem, but it seems plans have changed. I am now going to the Heavenly Jerusalem."
  Serracino Inglott reacted thus to these words: "I realised then that sometimes tears and laughter are interchangeable."
caption: When Bonaparte à Malte was being translated, Frans Sammut rewrote huge chunks of the original Maltese text (Sammut family archives).
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