Herman Leenders (born 10 May 1960) is a Flemish writer and poet.
[2] Leenders made his debut with poetry collection Mijn landschap, een beeldinventaris in 1982 as part of the Yang Poëzie Reeks.
[1] A decade later he published his second poetry collection Ogentroost (1992) for which he received three awards: the C. Buddingh'-prijs in 1993, the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs in 1993 and the Prijs van de Provincie West-Vlaanderen in 1995.
[1][2][3][4] In the years that followed he published various other poetry collections: Landlopen (1995), Speelgoed (2000), Vervalsingen (2008) and Dat is wij (2013).
Leenders also won the Prijs van de Provincie West-Vlaanderen for his collection of stories Het mennegat (1994).