Max Lerou

Poet and performer Max Lerou (The Hague, 1953) started out as a society hair stylist, journalist and manager of national Dutch broadcaster VPRO, among other jobs. As a young man he travelled across Europe with a circus. At later age he was based in Asia ,where he wrote English-language poetry and fiction. After returning to the Netherlands he quickly made himself a name as performance poet. Lerou was a Dutch Championship Poetry Slam finalist and was awarded, among others, the ABN AMRO Almere Poetry Prize. His performance during the official opening of Parkpop 2017 was a first in the history of this large open-air music festival in The Hague.