June 6, 2018 4:58 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
In Genoa, the city that Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer calls his home, a new day unfolds. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer recites his poem ‘Idylle 26’. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer was the winner of...
November 11, 2017 3:08 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
The diary of Anne Frank is more than a sacred book of murdered innocence, a testimony of the Shoah that commands compulsory awe and an untouchable monument that seems to...
January 29, 2017 11:11 amPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
An epyllion in Theocritan style about the Trojan War, revisited in a modern age. In rhyming alexandrines.
May 18, 2016 4:21 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
A collection of thirty poems written four-handedly by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer and Erik Jan Harmens about the fact that the world is falling to pieces.
April 22, 2015 4:00 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
About refugees, migrants, fear and hope. According to Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, the massive immigration to Europe cannot be stopped. ‘And what is inevitable is best organized as well as possible.’...
January 18, 2015 6:39 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
As a gift for the Week of Dutch and Belgian Poetry 2015, printed in an edition of more than 20 thousand copies, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wrote a crown of sonnets...
July 21, 2013 3:47 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
A textedition with a poetic translation and introduction of the Voces Haganae of the Dutch poet and diplomat Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687).
December 1, 2012 12:25 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
In Minister Kwist we closely follow the final days of the first Rutte cabinet. And by looking over the shoulder of the least well-known minister from that cabinet. Kwist, minister...
May 31, 2010 5:25 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
A theater monologue originally written in Italian in the form of a defense for a court about the absurdities of modern life. Premiere: May 31, 2010, Aut Aut, Genova. Actress:...
April 29, 2010 6:33 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
An anthology of classical stories about the Dutch city of Leiden, cosen by Onno Blom and Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, enriched by new stories especially written for the collection by Maarten...
January 29, 2009 6:13 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
An anthology of European poetry from Homer until the present day, in the original languages with Dutch translations and an introduction.
November 30, 2008 12:13 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
An anthology of the poems of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (edited by Özcan Akyol) in the pocket series of classics from Dutch literature.
June 14, 2008 9:44 amPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
This collection of Collected Poems 1998-2008 contains the award-winning and acclaimed collections Van de vierkant man (1998), The glimmering of the welkwiek (2001), Dolores (2002) and In the name of...
March 8, 2008 4:52 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
Two Dutch businessmen wait for the delayed flight to Rome Fiumicino at Malpensa airport near Milan. To kill the time they get into conversation with each other. That is to...
March 17, 2007 4:32 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
A political satire on the conservative restauration policy of the Dutch governments in rhyming alexandrines, set in the near future, when the best actor of the Netherlands takes the dead...
August 18, 2005 4:02 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
In the name of the dog contains sixteen poems that can truly be called ‘great’ in every respect: each individual poem is a hymn that sings like a dog and...
November 29, 2004 5:04 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models or completely ignored....
May 30, 2003 5:11 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
What’s to become of poetry? Everyone is versifying anything, everything is allowed and nothing is bad. High time for new standards and values. The secret of the Murdered Maunder is...
June 14, 2002 9:22 amPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
Dolores contains twenty-five compact, exuberant, screamingly recognizable poems about a great love, which, like all great loves, is characterized by despair and failure.
December 31, 1999 5:19 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
In his own time Bacchylides was considered the equal of Pindar, the most famous representative of archaic Greek lyric. Until the publication of the London papyrus in 1897; the study...
December 29, 1999 4:48 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
This book is about passages where Pindar uses the future tense with reference to himself or to his song. It addresses the question as to exactly what the function is...
June 29, 1999 4:28 pmPublished by iljaLeave your thoughts
A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and...
