Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Interview about Grand Hotel Europa for TG5 La Lettura (video)

Reading at the Festival Insieme in the Temple of Venus on the Forum Romanum, Rome (video)

A three hour live interview on prime time with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer for VPRO television

Miniopera ‘Pandemic’ on Dutch national television (video)

Libretto Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, composition Michel van der Aa, performed by Tania Kross and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.

Grand Hotel Europa nominated for the National Railway Audience Award

5 November 2019

TV commercial for Grand Hotel Europa, one of the six nominees for the NS Publieksprijs (The National Railway Audience Award).

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer guest in the Belgium national television show Van Gils & Gasten

18 March 2019

Interview about Grand Hotel Europa with Lieven Van Gils and Tom Lenaerts.

Miniportrait of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, filmed in Genoa for DichterBij

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 the VSB Poetry Prize 2016 with his collection Idyllen.

Peachez nominated for Libris Literature Prize 2018

5 march 2018

Peachez, a romance, along with five other novels, has been nominated for the Libris Literature Prize 2018. Ilja Pfeijffer won the prize in 2014 for his novel La Superba. The award ceremony is May 7th.

Ilja Pfeijffer wins Dutch Theatre Prize 2017 for ‘De Advocaat’ (The Lawyer)

6 december 2017

Ilja Pfeijffer wins the Dutch Theatre Prize 2017 for 'De Advocaat' (The Lawyer). The jury of the prize praised the script, stating: "Pfeijffer meets Shakespeare meets Pirandello in 21st century Holland."

‘Letters from Genoa’ made into theatreplay

23 september 2017

Theatre Group Maastricht has made a stage adaptation of Ilja's autobiographical work 'Letters from Genoa'. Actors Servé Hermans and Michel Sluysmans will be accompanied by soprano Lies Verholle, who sings aria's by Monteverdi, Puccini and Arditi.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer reads on the Night of Poetry 2015, on 19 September 2015 in Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht (video)

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer reads on the Night of Poetry 2015, on 19 September 2015 in Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht.

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
09-12-2020Interview about Grand Hotel Europa for TG5 La Lettura (video)
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
03-10-2020Reading at the Festival Insieme in the Temple of Venus on the Forum Romanum, Rome (video)
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
23-08-2020A three hour live interview on prime time with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer for VPRO television
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)
19-03-2020Miniopera ‘Pandemic’ on Dutch national 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)

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