Stian Olesen

is a young poet from The Hague who won the Young Campert Prize during the 2020 Winternachten festival. In the fall of 2019, he 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. Stian presented his poem during Winternachten 2020. One of the three finalists, he won the Young Campert Prize for best student poet during the Schrijversfeest (Writers' Feast). He is a pupil at Vrije School Den Haag.