Louwrens Penning, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLouwrens Penning
Dutch writer
Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1854
Date of Death: 12-Jan-1927
Profession: writer
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Louwrens Penning
- Louwrens Penning (Waardhuizen, 2 December 1854 - Utrecht, 12 January 1927) was a popular Dutch novelist.
- He was best known for his patriotic novels romanticising the Boer struggles with the British and Zulus in South Africa, even though at the time he wrote them, like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Karl May he had never travelled to the countries he described.
- Although viewed as having no literary value by literary historians they were wildly popular in the Netherlands and continued to be in demand into the 1960s.
- His best known work De held van Spionkop (1901) told the story of the real Louis Wessels, leader of the Boer commandos at the Battle of Spion Kop.
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