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    sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. In 1923, he was awarded the Tollensprijs (Tollens Prize). Couperus and...
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    writer Louis Couperus. The museum was founded in 1996 by Caroline de Westenholz, step daughter of Albert Vogel jr. (1924-1982), a biographer of Couperus, and...
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    copies). Ecstasy was the first book of Couperus that was published by L.J. Veen, later his regular publisher. Couperus received a wage of 550 guilders for...
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    Williswinde (category Books by Louis Couperus)
    Williswinde and 16 other works that were written by Couperus. For the first edition in 1894 Couperus received 200 guilders and the poems by that time had...
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    neighbourhood. The Dutch novelist and poet Louis Couperus resided in Javastraat 17. Today, this is the Louis Couperus Museum. (in Dutch) Den Haag in Cijfers...
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    Louis Couperus and knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Born into the Indo landed gentry of the Indies on both sides of his family, Couperus was...
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    first performed at La Scala, Milan, 26 December 1833. The Dutch writer Louis Couperus published a story called "Lucrezia" in 1920 that takes place between...
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    novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It was adapted into the 1991 film Eline Vere, directed by Harry Kümel. Couperus wrote Eline Vere in the house...
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  • symphonic poem by Belgian composer César Franck An 1898 fairy tale by Louis Couperus A 1924 classical music composition by Manuel de Falla Psyche (band)...
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    Henry VI, and Richard III by William Shakespeare), The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus and The Other Voice by Ramsey Nasr. In 2015, van Hove made his Broadway...
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    1891 her cousin, Louis Couperus, son of John Ricus Couperus (1816–1902) and jkvr. Catharina Geertruida Reynst (1829–1893). Louis Couperus wrote about Elisabeth...
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  • jeweller, goldsmith and gem dealer; mayor of The Hague, 1652 to 1657. Louis Couperus (1863–1923), novelist and poet. Demiak (born 1967), pseudonym of Maarten...
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  • Marion Bloem Yvonne Keuls Marion Bloem, writer (Indo father and mother) Louis Couperus (1863–1923), writer Theodor Holman, writer Victor Ido, writer Yvonne...
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    A ribbon of poems (category Books by Louis Couperus)
    compared Couperus' poetry with those written by Heinrich Heine, Everhardus Johannes Potgieter and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft; Jan ten Brink, Couperus' teacher...
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    Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry (category Books by Louis Couperus)
    collection of prose and poetry written by Dutch writer Louis Couperus, which was published in 1886. Couperus published his debut, A ribbon of poems (Dutch: Een...
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    The Hidden Force (category Novels by Louis Couperus)
    Force (Dutch: De Stille Kracht) is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The narrative is set on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies...
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    Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (category Louis Couperus)
    Breugelmans [nl], Louis Couperus in den vreemde (Leiden, 2008). Includes ten letters by Teixeira to the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. Alexander Teixeira...
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    William Boyle, Henry Bradley, Oscar Browning, John Cadvan Davies, Louis Couperus, Demetru Demetrescu-Buzău (known as Urmuz), Ulderiko Donadini, Marcellus...
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    Dutch literature has a large number of established authors, such as Louis Couperus, the writer of "The Hidden Force", taking the colonial era as an important...
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    Salamander series (number 71). For the stories in Couperus' book Schimmen van schoonheid Couperus was inspired by classical antiquity and classical mythology...
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    democratic and council communist movements. Another prominent novelist, Louis Couperus, published his first novel in 1889 and was deeply influenced by the...
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    main character in "De Ongelukkige" published in 1915 by Dutch author Louis Couperus. This novel covers the last decade of Abu Abdallah's reign as ruler...
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  • (Xerxes), a 1738 opera by George Frideric Handel Xerxes, a 1919 novel by Louis Couperus Xerxes (TV series), a 1988 Swedish TV series about young adults Xerxes...
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    (1844–1913) Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898) Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916) Dutch Louis Couperus (1863–1923) Lodewijk van Deyssel (1864–1952) Spanish Melchor Almagro...
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    'Psyche: An Opera in Three Acts (opera) based on the novel Psyche by Louis Couperus, composed by Meta Overman (1955) Metamorphoses (play) by Mary Zimmerman...
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    (1898) Book cover (1916) of Psyche (1898), a fairy tale written by Louis Couperus Levensverzekering-maatschappij Arnhem [Arnhem Life Insurance Company]...
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    essay Angst en schoonheid ("Fear and beauty"), on the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. In 2017, he has received the P. C. Hooft Award for his non-fiction...
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  • Kuperus (section Couperus)
    Elisabeth Couperus-Baud (1867–1960), Dutch translator, wife of Louis John Ricus Couperus (1816–1902), Dutch lawyer in the Dutch East Indies, father of Louis Louis...
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    by Dutch writer Louis Couperus describes the Persian wars from the perspective of Xerxes. Though the account is fictionalised, Couperus nevertheless based...
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    Surinamestraat 20, The Hague (category Louis Couperus)
    the house where the Dutch writer Louis Couperus wrote his novel Eline Vere. The father of Couperus, John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902) gave orders to build...
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