World Haiku Festival

PARTECIPANTS: FOREIGN COUNTRIES -1

夏石番矢（日本）

Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan)

Nacuisi Banja (Japán)

Born in Japan in 1955. He received a Master of Arts at Tokyo University. Professor at Meiji University, Director of the World Haiku Association as well as President of Ginyu Press. Attended to many international poetry and haiku festivals. Organized WHA Conferences and Tokyo Poetry Festival 2008, etc. Authored countless publications including Madarak 50 Haiku (Balassi Kiadó, Hungary, 2007) & Flying Pope (India & Japan, 2008). Won prizes including the AZsacra International Poetry Award for Taj Mahal Review (2008).

Петър Чухов (България)

Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria)

Petar Csuhov (Bulgária)

Petar Tchouhov was born in 1961 in Sofia, Bulgaria and has published eight books of verse, including The Garden of Weak Reality /1995/, The Nearly Impossible /2004/, Three /2010/ and Safety Pins /haiku and senryu/ /2010/. He is the winner of the 2004 MTel text-message poetry contest, the recipient of the Development Group special award for the best manuscript for his novel Snowmen (2003), and the winner of the top prize at the 61st Basho Festival. 

Tchouhov has played guitar and written music and lyrics for various rock bands.

Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić (Hrvatska)

Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic (Croatia)

Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić (Horvátország)

Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic was born in 1956, lives in Ivanic Grad, Croatia, graduated from The Faculty of Economy in Zagreb. She writes haiku in Croatian, Kajkavian dialect and in English. She is the founder of Haiku Association "Three Rivers" Ivanic Grad and Klostar Ivanic Haiku Meetings being the editor of relevant annual joint collections  and the haiku magazine IRIS. Beside Azami, Moonset, Whirligig, Eucaliptus, Modern Haiku, Ambrosia, Sketchbook, Haiku stvarnost/Reality, her haiku/waka have been published in the shared bilingual haiku collection Seven Windows, 2002, independent haiku collection Chasing the Clouds, 2006 and several anthologies.  For her haiku she received a number of awards and commendments in Croatia and abroad. Beside haiku, she publishes humorous sketches (three books so far) and poetry, which she puts to music. 

 Stjepan Rožić (Hrvatska)

Stjepan Rozic (Croatia)

Stjepan Rožić (Horvátország)

Stjepan Rožić, now a retired electrician, is an amateur musician and is among the founders of the Haiku Association Three Rivers, Ivanić Grad, Croatia, and the International Kloštar Ivanić Haiku meetings. He writes in Croatian and the Kajkavian Dialect, publishes in haiku magazines, and has received a number of awards in Croatia and Japan. Awards and Other Honors: Second Prize (Tokusen), En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan (1997); Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Kumamoto Japan (1999); Chosen Haiku, The 2nd Mainichi Haiku Contest, Japan (1997); Third Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku competition, Kumamoto, Japan (2000); Commendation, New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition (2001); Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Kumamoto, Japan (2008). 

Željka Vučinić-Jambrešić (Hrvatska)

Zeljka Vucinic-Jambresic (Horvátország)

Željka Vučinić-Jambrešić (Croatia)

Željka Vučinić-Jambrešić born 1959 in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Economy, Zagreb and works as a financial director. She is the president of folk dance Assembly Insula Ivanich, and Haiku Association "Three Rivers" both in Ivanić Grad. Haiku she has published since 2004 (in KO, moonset, IRIS) received a number of awards in Croatia and abroad. Awards and Other Honors: Third Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2005); Award winning haiku, Eighth Annual Suruga Baika Literary Festival (2006); Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2006); Honourable Mention. 10th Mainichi Haiku Competition (2006); First Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2006); Commendation, Haiku and Music, International contest of Bulgarian Haiku Club (2006); 

Hanne Hansen (Danmark)

Hanne Hansen (Dánia)

Hanne Hansen (Denmark)

Hanne Hansen is the founder of the Dansh Haiku Group.

In 1982 she began writing haiku and in 1990 she stayed for one month at the Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo. It was also a plesure for her to participate in the World Haiku Festival in England 2000 and the WHA conference in Japan 2003. She also took part in the 1. and 2. European haiku conferences. Last year she was in Lithuania for the 20 th. Druskininkai Poetic Fall Festival and the 5 th. WHAC 2009. She has published 4 haiku collections and a guide about how to write haiku.

Danièle Duteil (France)

Danièle Duteil (Franciaország)

Danièle Duteil (France)

Danièle DUTEIL, haïku and tanka poet, is a retired french litterature teacher who resides near La Rochelle, in the isle of Ré,. where she was born.

Since 2008, she has been published in several haïku anthologies and in the first « Anthology du Tanka francophone » (French-speaking Tanka Editions, Dir. Patrick Simon, 2010).

In 2007, she joined AFH (Association Française de Haïku / French Haïku Association) as a secretary and a member of the writting comittee of the French haïku publication « Gong »

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah (Ghána)

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah (Ghana)

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah born in Ghana.

Attended Breman Asikuma Secondary School and University of Cape Coast

Studied Education. Worked as a teacher, headteacher, correspondent, staff writer and editor. Hobbies are chess, cooking and traveling. Married with one son.