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Louis Couperus

1863 - 1923

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Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) 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 (Tollens Prize). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Couperus is the 2,587th most popular writer (up from 2,828th in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 470th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Dutch Writer.

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Among writers, Louis Couperus ranks 2,587 out of 7,302. Before him are Stanisław Konarski, Heinrich von Veldeke, Matthias Claudius, Wayne Dyer, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. After him are Jean Raspail, Guan Daosheng, Lucius Afranius, Olha Kobylianska, Giovanni de' Bardi, and Sophie de Condorcet.

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Among people born in 1863, Louis Couperus ranks 73. Before him are Max Skladanowsky, Joseph Caillaux, Yevhen Petrushevych, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Fyodor Sologub, and Franz Schalk. After him are Olha Kobylianska, Pierina Legnani, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Richard Dehmel, Francisco León de la Barra, and Klara Zamenhof. Among people deceased in 1923, Louis Couperus ranks 51. Before him are Alexandre Ribot, Dora Pejačević, Zhang Xun, Vatroslav Jagić, Horace Parnell Tuttle, and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. After him are George Hendrik Breitner, Eugène Mougin, John Morley, Semyon Alapin, Hermes da Fonseca, and Fritz Mauthner.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Couperus ranks 421 out of 1,646. Before him are Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Kees Rijvers (1926), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Hendrik Casimir (1909), and Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821). After him are Lou Ottens (1926), Jan van Huysum (1682), Roche Braziliano (1630), Theo de Jong (1947), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), and Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Louis Couperus ranks 17. Before him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Jacob Cats (1577), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Corrie ten Boom (1892), and Herman Gorter (1864). After him are Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Jacob Israël de Haan (1881), Gerard Reve (1923), Tim Krabbé (1943), and Gysbert Japiks (1603).

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