Amanou Jansen

is a young poet from The Hague who competed in the finals of the Young Campert Prize during the 2020 Winternachten festival. In the fall of 2019, Amanou participated in Spot on Young Poets, the educational project of Writers Unlimited, poet Diann van Faassen and Meermanno Museum | House of the Book. This project constitutes poetry workshops at Hague high schools, where students are given lessons in poetry and recitation. Amanou presented a poem during Winternachten 2020 and was second finalist for the Young Campert Prize for best student poet during the Schrijversfeest (Writers' Feast). Amanou was a pupil at Dalton Den Haag, and now studies Biochemical Sciences at the Leiden University.