Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other Friday in NRC Handelsblad. This is a collection of the 26 sonnets that appeared in 2020 and that together form a poetic overview of the year.

Sonnets 2020 was commissioned by Michaël Roumen and designed by the Ghent-based designer duo Ruttens-Wille, set in Bradford and printed as a softcover on Munken Print White in a one-time edition of 250 numbered and signed copies.