Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, a classicist by training, made his debut with a poetry collection that was an homage to the experimental poetry of his great models, Pindar and Lucebert. In the years that followed, in addition to poetry, he has written stage plays, essays, columns, travel accounts, stories, political satires, and four novels written in the spirit of Rabelais. In his other novels, he has played a game with world literature and divided the critics between those proclaiming him a genius and those who thought him an antiquated stylist. He's a bit of both. Pfeijffer’s award-winning debut novel, Rupert: A Confession, was published in English by Open Letter Books in 2009, also in Michele Hutchison’s translation. La Superba is Pfeijffer’s masterpiece, and was greeted with unanimous acclaim, including the most prominent recognition with the awarding of Libris Literatuurprijs, the Netherlands' most prestigious literary award, and the Tzum Prize, awarded for “the most beautiful sentence of the year,” which he has now won twice, the only writer to have won more than once.
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