Louis Couperus
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) spent much of his younger life in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia), and many of his novels and stories are set either here, or in The Hague where he was born, though his work also contains impressions of Italy, Africa and China, the fruits of his tireless travelling. Couperus was the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation, and is still internationally renowned; The New York Review of Books published a piece by Ian Buruma praising The Hidden Force as recently as the 1990s.