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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 17 January 1968) is a Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar. He was born in Rijswijk, Netherlands, and studied, lived and worked in Leiden, and he moved permanently to Genoa, Italy, in 2008. Biography Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer was born on 17 January 1968 in Rijswijk in the Netherlands. He made his début in 1998 with a collection entitled ''Of the Square Man'', containing of fifty-odd highly individualistic poems. This debut won him the 1999 C. Buddingh’ poetry prize. As well as a poet, Pfeijffer was for some time a Greek scholar on the staff of Leiden University. He wrote a dissertation on the poetry of Pindar and published a history of classical literature for the general reader. Regarding his own poetry he has outspoken views, not just in his oft-quoted programmatic opening poem "Farewell Dinner," in which he dismisses the hermetic Hans Faverey and calls for "butter-baked images / and bulimic verse". Pfeijffer's poetic polemics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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