Hendrik Cornelis Alexander (Henri) van Booven (17 July 1877 in Haarlem – 31 January 1964 in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

) was a Dutch writer and journalist. His most successful work was the novel ''Tropenwee'' (''Tropical agony'', 1904), a thinly veiled autobiographical literary report of a mission to Congo in 1898, somewhat similar to '' Heart of Darkness''. Friend of the symbolist artist Karel de Nerée tot Babberich and the writer

Louis Couperus 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 s ...

, whose biography he would write (''Leven en werken van Louis Couperus'', 1933), he was also an important sportsman, especially in

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, and

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Works (selection)

* Witte Nachten (1901) ('White Nights') * Tropenwee (1904) * Van de Vereering des Levens (1906) * Sproken (1907) * De Fraaie Comedie (1912) 1877 births 1964 deaths Dutch male journalists Dutch biographers Male biographers Dutch male writers Writers from Haarlem {{Netherlands-writer-stub