Born 1968 · Netherlands
Libris 2019 · Shortlist
Grand Hotel Europa
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer · 50 when first published
Novel · 551 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A writer moves into the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa to work out what went wrong with Clio, the art historian he fell for in Genoa and lived with in Venice.
Libris 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Peachez: A Romance”
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer · 49 when first published
Novel · 174 pages · Love, Satire
AI-generated summary:An ageing professor of Latin, planning a conference on Tertullian to crown his retirement, strikes up an email exchange with a woman who says she is Sarah Peachez, a Las Vegas barmaid and model.
Libris 2014 · Winner
La Superba
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer · 45 when first published
Novel · 418 pages · Migration, Love
AI-generated summary:Leonardo, a Dutch writer living in Genoa, sends notes about the city and its people to a friend back home, planning to turn them into a novel one day, while warning that he has made Genoa up.