Hanus Kamban (born 25 June 1942 in Saltangará, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese short story writer, essayist, biographer and poet.

[3] He writes about the quite sudden modernisation of the Faroese society post World War II.

He published his first short story anthology in 1980, and has translated William Shakespeare, Kafka, Graham Greene and other great writers and poets from other countries to Faroese.

He was nominated to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the first time in 2003 for his short story anthology Pílagrímar (Pilgrims).

In February/March 2013 Kamban was invited to [needs update] the Kennedy Center in Washington DC for the Nordic Cool Festival.