Trivia

Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.

His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches.

Through his father, he was a great-grandson of Abraham Couperus (1752-1813), Governor of Malacca, and Willem Jacob Cranssen (1762-1821), Governor of Ambon with a female-line, Eurasian lineage that goes back even earlier to the mid-eighteenth century.

In 1883 he attended the opera written by Charles Gounod Le tribute de Zamora; he later used elements of this opera in his novel Eline Vere.

Louis Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet.