Mirle Wittekoek

is a young poet from The Hague who won the Young Campert Prize during the 2019 Winternachten festival. In the fall of 2018, she 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. Mirle presented her poem during Winternachten 2019. One of the three finalists, she won the Young Campert Prize for best student poet during the Schrijversfeest (Writers' Feast). She was a pupil at Dalton Den Haag, and studies Social Work at the Haagse Hogeschool.