Ferdinand Lankamp

(Alphen aan de Rijn, 1989) grew up in Leiden and Voorschoten. After several long and notably chaotic student years he is now close to graduating at Leiden University as a historian, focusing on the decolonisation of Indonesia. He works as an editor for digital cultural magazine De Optimist alongside his position as a book reviewer and reporter for the cultural blog CLEEFT. He is no stranger to writing prose himself: in December 2015 he won the Christmas Story Contest of the Leiden University magazine Mare. After his graduation he will start a teacher training at the University of Amsterdam.