Louis Marie Anne 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.
Photos 10
Couperus as a child
Louis Couperus after a drawing made by Bas Veth in 1892
Louis Couperus in 1897, portrait by H. J. Haverman.
Louis Couperus and Elisabeth Couperus-Baud aboard Prins der Nederlanden in 1921
Statue of Couperus by Kees Verkade in The Hague
Cover of Eline Vere designed by Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach
Cover of Extaze designed by Hendrik Petrus BerlageAwards 3
Connected to Louis 6
About this person
Louis Marie Anne 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.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1863 to 1923 · aged 60
Written about in
27 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.