- 23-05-2023Border Kitchen / Royal Theater The Hague
- 09-04-2022Radio-interview Kunststof (Dutch, audio)
- 17-02-2022Reading in Frankfurt (Germany)
- 09-02-2022Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa in Bergen (Norway)
- 17-01-2022Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa in Paris (France)
- 17-11-2021Reading at the Bibliotheektheater, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
- 12-11-2021Dutch tour canceled due to increasing contamination figures
- 11-11-2021Reading in the Literary Café of Library De Lage Beemden, Gemert (The Netherlands)
- 10-11-2021Reading in Oudenburg (Belgium)
- 09-11-2021Reading in the library of Edegem (Belgium)
- 08-11-2021Reading in Hooglede (Belgium)
- 07-11-2021Reading in Utopia, Aalst (Belgium)
- 07-11-2021Reading in the Beatrijs book shop, Oudenaarde (Belgium)
- 24-10-2021Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos (Portugal)
- 24-10-2021Interview in Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
- 17-10-2021Reading at the Bourla Theatre, Antwerp (Belgium, video)
- 11-10-2021Review of Grand Hotel Europa in iLiteratura (Czech Republic)
- 09-10-2021“Una de las mejores novelas que he leído en los últimos años,” review of Grand Hotel Europa in La Opinión de Murcia
- 01-10-2021Reading at the International Poetry Festival of Genoa, Parole Spalancate, Palazzo Reale (video)
- 30-09-2021Public interview about Grand Hotel Europe at the Pisa Book Festival (video)
- 26-09-2021Reading at the Tübinger Buchfest
- 17-09-2021Interview for ABC cultura, Spain
- 16-09-2021Pfeijffer at Khalid & Sophie NPO1 Dutch national television (video)
- 16-09-2021Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer will write the Bookweek Gift of 2022
- 16-09-2021Lecture on Covid-19 on the Leiden Days of Geriatric Healthcare (online)
- 10-09-2021“A fantastic metaphor of our old continent”, review of Grand Hotel Europe in ABC cultura, Spain
- 10-09-2021Meeting with the press in Barcelona
- 09-09-2021Publication of the Spanish translation of Grand Hotel Europe
- 08-09-2021Venice without mask: a conversation with Petra Reski for Literarischer Sommer (video)
- 03-09-2021Interview about Grand Hotel Europe for Todas as Palavras, RTP Television, Portugal (video)
- 20-08-2021Pfeijffer donates his archive to the Museum for Literature
- 13-08-2021Publication of the Czech translantion of Grand Hotel Europe
- 25-07-2021Interview about Grand Hotel Europe for Público, Portugal
- 19-07-2021Review (****) of Grand Hotel Europe in Observador, Portugal
- 03-07-2021‘Declaration of love to Europe’, TEDx Barletta (video)
- 17-06-2021Public interview by Laura Capra about Grand Hotel Europe in Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
- 19-05-2021Opening of the installation “City to Dust” at the Biennale of Architecture in Venice
- 08-05-2021Publication of the Finnish translation of Grand Hotel Europe
- 07-05-2021Publication of the Portuguese translation of Grand Hotel Europe
- 04-05-2021Lecture about Grand Hotel Europe for the European Women’s Management Development Network La Spezia (online)
- 23-04-2021Film Peachez on national Dutch television (video)
- 11-04-2021Interview for Monocle
- 29-03-2021Interview by Carmen van den Bergh for the students of Italian literature of Leiden University (video)
- 11-03-2021Day of Cultural Education, Ghent (online)
- 22-02-2021Online program “Occupied City” of De Buren (video)
- 24-01-2021Poet in Dandy with Elfie Tromp (video)
- 26-12-2020NRC podcast with Ilja and Stella (audio)
- 24-12-2020Grand interview with Stella Seitun and Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer by Rinskje and Jannetje Koelewijn for NRC
- 20-12-2020Interview with Danny Illegems in De Morgen
- 13-12-2020Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wins the Blendle Advent Award for the Column of the Year
- 13-12-2020Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer nominated as Master of the Language 2020
- 02-12-2020Online debate on tourism for Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam (video)
- 23-11-2020Rights for Grand Hotel Europe sold to twenty countries
- 15-11-2020“This book about the year 2020 is also the Book of the Year 2020.” Review of Quarantaine in De Tijd
- 11-11-2020Sobre el turismo de masas y otros coronavirus – interview about Grand Hotel Europe and Quarantaine by Renzo Mejía Wall for Gutnius (Peru)
- 10-11-2020Interview about Quarantaine during the Book Marathon at the Antwerp Book Fair (video)
- 10-11-2020Interview about Quarantaine on Pompidou, Klara Radio (audio)
- 07-11-2020Interview with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the feminist magazine Opzij
- 07-11-2020Interview with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer about Quarantaine on News Weekend Radio (audio)
- 05-11-2020Grand Hotel Europe wins the Gold Book Award
- 03-11-2020Publication date Quarantaine
- 30-10-2020Grand Hotel Europe book of the month in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- 28-10-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa on Deutschlandfunk (audio)
- 21-10-2020Grand Hotel Europa in Germany in the Spiegel Bestseller Top 20
- 16-10-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa in Hotel Aquarius, Venice
- 15-10-2020Interview in Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
- 15-10-2020Interview in Galore Literatur
- 15-10-2020The Ateneo Veneto cancels the presentation of the book by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer which criticizes tourism so as not to annoy the members (press release)
- 10-10-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa at the international festival Lit.Ruhr, Essen
- 09-10-2020I31 Literatur-Talk Berlin (video)
- 09-10-2020Interview in Buchhandlung Geistesblüten Berlin (video)
- 09-10-2020Review of Grand Hotel Europa in La Repubblica
- 09-10-2020Review of Grand Hotel Europa in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- 08-10-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa for the Bayerischer Rundfunk
- 08-10-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa for MDR Radio
- 08-10-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa at the Dutch embassy in Berlin
- 06-10-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa for NDR Kultur
- 06-10-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa in the Literaturhaus, Hamburg
- 05-10-2020Publication of the German translation of Grand Hotel Europa
- 16-09-2020Publication of the Croatian translation of La Superba
- 16-09-2020Digital presentation of La Superba at the Vrisak festival, Croatia (video)
- 15-09-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa at the Ducal Palace of Genoa (video)
- 13-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa in La Repubblica (ed. Genua)
- 12-09-2020Grand Hotel Europa in the Top Ten of Robinson, the literary supplement of La Repubblica
- 11-09-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa at the national Festa de l’Unità, Modena (video)
- 11-09-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa in the Italian national newspaper Avvenire
- 11-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa in the Gazzetta di Mantova
- 11-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa for ANSA
- 10-09-2020Presentation of Grand Hotel Europa at Festivaletteratura, Mantua
- 10-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa for Radio Popolare (audio)
- 10-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa for Fahrenheit, RAI 3 radio (audio)
- 03-09-2020Publication of the Italian translation of Grand Hotel Europa
- 02-09-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europa in Il Secolo XIX
- 22-06-2020Miniopera ‘Besmettingsgevaar’ with Jacob TV, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest & Groot Omroepkoor (video)
- 05-04-2020Pfeijffer at OVT, VPRO, Radio 1 (audio)
- 04-04-2020Pfeijffer at Frits Spits, De Taalstaat, Radio 1 (audio)
- 01-04-2020Article on the coronavirus and European solidarity in La Repubblica
- 30-03-2020Pfeijffer at Dit is de Dag, Radio 1 (audio)
- 29-03-2020Pfeijffer at De Zevende Dag, VRT, Belgian television (video)
- 13-03-2020Pfeijffer at Dit is de Dag, Radio 1 (audio)
- 12-03-2020Article in HP / De Tijd about the Dutch attitude towards the coronavirus read more than 600,000 times
- 09-03-2020Start of a daily journal about life in times of the virus for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard
- 08-03-2020Book tour Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer cancelled because of Coronavirus
- 04-03-2020Premiere of The Prosecutrix, Zuidpool, Antwerp
- 26-02-2020Portrait of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the Financieele Dagblad
- 24-01-2020Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the television show ‘Evenblij maakt vrienden’ (video)
- 16-01-2020Pfeijffer on Homer’s Odyssee at the Winter Nights Festival, The Hague (video)
- 16-01-2020Interview on poetry at the Winter Nights Festival, The Hague (video)
- 16-01-2020Interview on Grand Hotel Europe at the Winter Nights Festival, The Hague (video)
- 16-01-2020Grand Hotel Europe best sold Dutch book of 2019
- 21-12-2019Interview in Trouw
- 14-12-2019Readers’ Award (Trouw) for Grand Hotel Europa
- 11-12-2019Grand Hotel Europa one entire year in the general bestseller list
- 07-12-2019Reading at the book fair Più libri più liberi, Rome (video)
- 30-11-2019Reading at the Wintertuin Festival, Nijmegen
- 29-11-2019Reading in the Beatrijs book store, Oudenaarde, Belgium
- 28-11-2019Debate on the future of Europe with Herman Van Rompuy on the Flanders Informal Summit, Opera, Ghent
- 21-11-2019Public interview for the Leisure Lab of Alkmaar Marketing
- 20-11-2019Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the Dutch television show De Wereld Draait Door
- 18-11-2019Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the Dutch television show Time for Max (video)
- 14-11-2019Reading at the Incipit Festival Letterario, Genoa
- 11-11-2019Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in the Belgian television show Winteruur (video)
- 03-11-2019Public interview at the Festival della Scienza, Genoa
- 31-10-2019Public debate on tourism in Giethoorn
- 30-10-2019Public interview and book signing at the Antwerpen Book Fair
- 28-10-2019Reading at the Day of the City, World Forum, The Hague (video)
- 23-10-2019Grand Hotel Europa shortlisted for the Annual Readers’ Award
- 12-10-2019Reading at the festival ‘Het betere boek’, Ghent
- 04-10-2019Stage adaptation of Peachez “the best show of the year” ***** – Elsevier
- 02-10-2019Debate on irony in De Balie, Amsterdam (video)
- 01-10-2019Debate on irony in the Academy Building of Groningen University
- 30-09-2019Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer on irony at the Belgian prime time television show De Afspraak (video)
- 28-09-2019Premiere of the stage adaptation of Peachez by Toneelgroep Maastricht
- 28-09-2019Interview in De Morgen
- 27-09-2019Reading at Writers on Stage in the New Library of Almere
- 26-09-2019Reading at the public library of Hoorn
- 20-08-2019Pfeijffer at Dit is de Dag, Radio 1 (audio)
- 14-08-2019Interview with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer for the Swiss radio RSI Rete Uno
- 30-06-2019“Il poeta di Genova” – Interview with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer by Angelo Ferracuti for La Lettura of the Corriere della Sera (pdf)
- 19-06-2019Meeting with the international publishers of Grand Hotel Europa, Amsterdam
- 18-06-2019Lecture at the National Conference of Tourism, NBTC Holland Marketing, Almere
- 17-06-2019Lecture at the National Conference of Citymarketing, Eindhoven
- 13-06-2019Reading at the Marché de la Poésie, Paris
- 01-06-2019Beginning of a week as writer in residence in San Felice Circeo
- 25-05-2019Reading at the Get Lost Festival, Marktsteeg 10, Leiden
- 18-05-2019Lecture at Festival Europa, Tivoli-Vredenburg, Utrecht
- 18-05-2019Public interview about Grand Hotel Europa for the NRC Book Club in the Scheltema Bookstore, Amsterdam
- 12-05-2019Public interview as a nominee for the Premio Strega Europeo at the Circolo dei Lettori of Turin (video)
- 11-05-2019Public interview at the International Bookfair of Turin (video)
- 10-05-2019Reading at the Feltrinelli bookstore of Savona
- 03-05-2019Double interview with Stella Seitun in NRC Handelsblad
- 24-04-2019Cover story about Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in HP/De Tijd – “The Big #1”
- 16-04-2019La Superba nominated for the Premio Strega Europeo
- 11-04-2019Lecture on Dike Worker’s Day, Rotterdam (video)
- 10-04-2019Translation rights of Grand Hotel Europa sold to ten countries
- 10-04-2019100,000 copies sold of Grand Hotel Europa
- 10-04-2019Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer on the television show ‘M’ (video)
- 07-04-2019Public interview in Ostende, Belgium
- 04-04-2019Performance at Klassifest Paradiso, Amsterdam
- 04-04-2019Public interview about Aeneas on the Hermaion conference at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
- 03-04-2019Lecture at the White Rose, Roosendaal
- 02-04-2019Lecture at the Van der Velde bookshop, Drachten
- 01-04-2019Interview and reading in Auditorium Tweebronnen, Leuven
- 31-03-2019Conversation with Wim Helsen about the poetry of Menno Wigman at the Passaporta Festival, Brussels (video)
- 31-03-2019Public interview with Ruth Joos at the Passa Porta Festival in Brussels
- 30-03-2019Reading at the Boekenfest Assen
- 28-03-2019Reading at Porgy & Bess, Terneuzen
- 27-03-2019Lecture at the gymnasium of Arnhem
- 26-03-2019Public interview at Domani Literair, Venlo
- 25-03-2019Lecture at the Witte Gentlemen’s Club, The Hague
- 24-03-2019Lecture in the Buitelaar bookshop, Breda
- 19-03-2019Talkshow Frénk & Frencken in the Philharmonie Haarlem
- 18-03-2019Nieuwsuur Television about the nominations for the Libris Award (video)
- 18-03-2019Grand Hotel Europa shortlisted for the Libris Award
- 16-03-2019Lecture in the library of Hasselt (BE)
- 15-03-2019Public debate about the future of Europe in Leiden
- 14-03-2019Debating evening about Grand Hotel Europa at De Balie, Amsterdam (video)
- 13-03-2019Grand Hotel Europa shortlisted for the E. du Perron Award
- 13-03-2019Five stars for Just Call It Love in the Volkskrant
- 10-03-2019Premiere of “Just call it love” by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer and the Theatre of Maastricht in the Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht
- 10-03-2019Broadcast of the episode of the television program “Provincia Capitale” on Genoa on RAI 3 with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (video)
- 05-03-2019Review of La Superba in Il Sole 24 Ore
- 17-02-2019Grand Hotel Europa nominated for the Cutting Edge Awards
- 16-02-2019Saint Amour, Bruges
- 16-02-2019Performance at the opening of the Casper Faassen exhibition at Galerie Dessers, Leuven
- 15-02-2019Saint Amour, Tervuren
- 14-02-2019Saint Amour, Sint-Niklaas
- 13-02-2019Saint Amour, Leuven
- 12-02-2019Saint Amour, Genk
- 11-02-2019Saint Amour, Ghent
- 09-02-2019Saint Amour, Brussels
- 08-02-2019Saint Amour, Antwerp
- 07-02-2019Grand Hotel Europa book of the month on the international publishers’ site iBuk
- 04-02-2019Grand Hotel Europa on the longlist of the Libris Award
- 03-02-2019Interview about Grand Hotel Europa and Just call it love at De Stemming on L1 Radio (audio)
- 03-02-2019Poetry Afternoon Maastricht City of Books
- 01-02-2019Festive presentation of the 50,000th copy of Grand Hotel Europa to Femke Halsema, mayor of Amsterdam
- 31-01-2019Reading at the Nijmegen Poetry Night
- 31-01-2019Public interview in the Purple Chair of Maurice Maeterlick in library De Krook, Gent (audio)
- 30-01-2019Reading at the Van der Velde Bookshop, Sneek
- 29-01-2019Reading in the library of Brummen
- 27-01-2019Lecture and book signing in the Gasthuiskerk, Doesburg
- 26-01-2019Interview and book signing in the Van Piere bookshop, Eindhoven
- 26-01-2019Meet and Greet in the Broerse bookshop, Utrecht
- 26-01-2019Meet and Greet in Waanders In de Broeren, Zwolle
- 22-01-2019Grand Hotel Europa in the world-wide bestsellers’ list of Il Libraio
- 18-01-2019Interview about Grand Hotel Europa at the late night television show of Eva Jinek (video)
- 11-01-2019Interview about Grand Hotel Europa on Opium Radio 4 (audio)
- 05-01-2019“A real masterpiece. It will defy time.” – Review of Grand Hotel Europa in Trouw
- 03-01-2019Grand Hotel Europa reaches the second place in the CPNB Bestseller Top 60
- 29-12-2018“The novel of 2018”- Review of Grand Hotel Europa in Het Laatste Nieuws
- 23-12-2018Meet and Greet at the Letters en Co bookshop in Deinze, Belgium
- 23-12-2018Interview and book signing at the Theoria bookshop in Kortrijk, Belgium (video)
- 22-12-2018Book presentation at the Trojan Horse Bookshop, Ghent, with pizza (report)
- 22-12-2018Meet and Greet at the Standaard bookshop, Antwerp
- 22-12-2018Meet and Greet at the Standaard bookshop at Louvain, Belgium
- 21-12-2018Interview for Culture Club, Radio 1, VRT Belgium (audio)
- 21-12-2018Interview for Pompidou, Radio Klara, VRT Belgium (audio)
- 21-12-2018Meet and Greet at Passa Porta in Brussels
- 21-12-2018“Art for better health and wellbeing” – Publication in British Medical Journal 2018, 363, with Bastiaan R. Bloem and Paul Knack
- 20-12-2018Interview on Nooit Meer Slapen Radio about Grand Hotel Europa (audio)
- 16-12-2018Meet and Greet in the Van Someren & Ten Bosch bookshop, Zutphen
- 16-12-2018Meet and Greet in the Colofon bookshop, Arnhem
- 16-12-2018Meet and Greet in the Dekker v.d. Vegt bookshop, Nijmegen
- 16-12-2018Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer interviewed about Grand Hotel Europa by Carolina lo Galbo in the television program VPRO Books (video)
- 15-12-2018Meet and Greet in the Kooyker Bookshop, Leiden
- 15-12-2018Meet and Greet in the Scheltema Bookshop, Amsterdam
- 15-12-2018Meet and Greet at the Donner bookshop, Rotterdam (video)
- 15-12-2018Meet and Greet at the Paagman bookshop, The Hague
- 15-12-2018Interview on MAX Nieuwsweekend Radio about Grand Hotel Europa (audio)
- 14-12-2018“Grand Hotel Europa is not only a reflection on our identity, but also a contribution to its continuation.” – Review in De Volkskrant
- 14-12-2018Interview about La Superba for RAI Letteratura (in Italian, video)
- 14-12-2018Interview about Grand Hotel Europa in Lees Magazine of bol.com
- 14-12-2018Interview about Grand Hotel Europa in Knack
- 14-12-2018“With Grand Hotel Europa Pfeijffer wrote the novel of the year” — Review (*****) in NRC Handelsblad
- 14-12-2018Conversation with Mashid Mohadjerin at the Festival of Equality / Gent (BE)
- 14-12-2018Panel discussion on tourism at the Festival of Equality, Gent (BE)
- 10-12-2018Interview by Graziano Graziani at the Dutch embassy in Rome about La Superba and Grand Hotel Europa (video)
- 08-12-2018Interview by Thomas Peeters on Grand Hotel Europa in De Tijd
- 08-12-2018Interview by Stefano Gallerani about La Superba at the festival Più libri più liberi at Rome (video)
- 07-12-2018Interview by Jelle van Riet about Grand Hotel Europa in De Standaard
- 24-11-2018Poetry Marathon 30 years C. Buddingh’-Prize Laureates, Kunstmin, Dordrecht
- 22-11-2018Interview about La Superba with Rosangela Urso for Mentelocale (video)
- 17-11-2018Lecture on La Superba at Il Falso Demetrio, Genoa
- 16-11-2018Public interview about La Superba at L’Amico Ritrovato, Genoa (video)
- 08-11-2018Odile Heynders, ‘Genova as scenario for the New Europe: How Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer illustrates superdiversity’, Diggit Magazine
- 28-10-2018Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer presents a documentary on Genoa for Arte.tv (French, video)
- 01-10-2018Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer guest in the radio programm Fahrenheit on Rai 3 (audio)
- 30-09-2018Panel discussion on “Genova letteraria” in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (video)
- 29-09-2018Presentation of the Italian translation of La Superba in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (video)