Louis Marie Anne Couperus

Dutch author

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Louis Marie Anne Couperus (born June 10, 1863, The Hague, Neth.—died July 16, 1923, De Steeg) was one of the greatest Dutch novelists of the 1880 literary revival. Couperus grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies. After returning to the Netherlands, he settled in Italy. During World War I he returned to The Hague and later traveled through Africa and East Asia, describing his journeys in a series of impressionistic newspaper...