Louis Couperus

Louis Couperus was born on Jun 10, 1863 in Netherlands. Louis Couperus's big-screen debut came with Eline Vere directed by Harry Kümel in 1991.

Dutch novelist Louis Couperus was born in The Hague in 1863. His father was an official in the Dutch government, and when Louis was ten years old his father was appointed to a position in Java, Indonesia (then a Dutch colony known as the Dutch East Indies), and the family moved there. They were there for five years when his father suddenly died, and the family returned to Holland. He graduated from the University of Holland at The Hague, and was hired there as a teacher.