Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (January 17, 1968 - ), Dutch poet, novelist, polemist and classic scholar, was born in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, now lives and works in Leiden.

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer made his d?but in 1998 with a collection entitled of the square man, a literary multi-course dinner which made a splash in the Netherlands? quiet poetic pond. Fifty-odd highly individualistic poems: a sturdy volume which at once won him the 1999 C. Buddingh? poetry prize.

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Pfeijffer is exuberant, energetic, brimming with life. His banquet serves the reader no white lines of silence, no regular rhyming stanzas. Pfeijffer likes to break bones, throws in a ?ha ha kiddo humour joke?, jabbers extravaganza and toasts ?to a dangerous glass?. His free verse, without capital letters, throbs and sings with alliteration, internal rhyme and associative sequences like ?dram dromende druilknol knoestig knort?. Its overwhelming dynamism, its lavish exploitation of sounds and words, take the reader as by storm. ?Words must give you something to chew on,? says Pfeijffer in an interview. ?There is plenty of ordinary speech around.?

January 17: January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 348 days remaining (349 in leap years)....

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