Surinamestraat 20 in The Hague is the location of 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 this house; he first sold his estate "Tjicoppo", which was located near Buitenzorg in the Dutch East Indies and then returned to the Netherlands, where he and his family moved into this house.

After the death of John Ricus Couperus the house was put up for sale and in 1903 bought by lawyer and writer Conrad Theodor van Deventer.

However the foundation failed to achieve this goal because it could not find sponsors that would donate the 3 million Euro, which was necessary to buy the house.

[4] Dutch minister Ronald Plasterk was asked for help but he refused to donate funds to buy the house because he thought that the Nederlands Letterkundig Museum (the Dutch Literature Museum, located at the National library) proved enough honour to support the heritage of Couperus.