Louis Couperus

Louis MarieAnne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. In 1923, he was awarded the Tollensprijs .

Louis MarieAnne Couperus was born onJune 1863 at Mauritskadein The Hague, Netherlands. He was the eleventh and youngest child of John Ricus Couperus and Catharina Geertruida Reynst . Four of the ten siblings had died before Louis was born. Couperus was baptized onJuly 1863 in the glise wallone in The Hague.p.3159 When Louis reached the age of five, his youngest sister, Trudy, was twelve years old and his youngest brother, Frans, eleven.p.55 In The Hague he followed lessons at the boarding school of mr. Wyers, where he first met his later friend Henri van Booven.p.61 OnNovember 1872 the Couperus family left home, travelled by train to Den Helder and embarked on the steamboat Prins Hendrik, which would bring them to the Dutch East Indies.p.65 They arrived onDecember 1872 in Batavia, where they spent the night at the then famous Hotel des Indes.p.68 The family settled in a house in Batavia, located on the Koningsplein and the mother of Couperus and his brother Frans r

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