Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is an award-winning Dutch writer who has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, and essays. His novel La Superba won the Libris Literature Prize, awarded by the Royal Academy of Belgium. The book was a bestseller and has been published in several countries, including the United States, Germany, and Italy. Pjeijffer studied classics at Leiden University, where he earned his PhD and worked as a researcher and teacher of ancient...See more

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is an award-winning Dutch writer who has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, and essays. His novel La Superba won the Libris Literature Prize, awarded by the Royal Academy of Belgium. The book was a bestseller and has been published in several countries, including the United States, Germany, and Italy. Pjeijffer studied classics at Leiden University, where he earned his PhD and worked as a researcher and teacher of ancient Greek until 2004. In 2008, he moved to the northern Italian port city of Genoa, where he has lived and worked ever since. Michele Hutchison is a translator of Dutch and French literature. In 2020, she won the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of Stage Four , by Sander Kollaard, and the International Booker Prize, together with the author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, for The Discomfort of Evening . She is also the coauthor of The Happiest Kids in the World: How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids (and Themselves) by Doing Less . See less