BORIS NAZANSKY

Diplomirani inženjer kemije, pisac i novinar. Rođen je u Rijeci 16. srpnja 1953. godine, diplomirao na Prirodoslovno-matematičkom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Živi i radi u Zagrebu, profesionalno se bavi enigmatikom. Objavio je više od deset tisuća zagonetaka u brojnim zagonetačkim i drugim listovima na hrvatskom, srpskom i slovenskom jeziku. Glavni je urednik tjedne zagonetačke revije Kvizorama. Autor je zbirke stihovnih zagonetaka Stišići, Bjelovar, 1980, monografije (u koautorstvu s Milanom Đurićem) Zagonetaštvo varaždinskog kraja, Bjelovar, 1981, zbirke zagonetaka u stihovima za djecu A što je to?, Zagreb, 2001. i zbirke (u koautorstvu s Juliom Radilovićem Julesom) Velikani u strip-anegdoti, Zagreb, 2003.

Haiku bilježi više od dvadeset godina, na književnom standardu i kajkavskom narječju, a objavljuje od 1993. u časopisima i zbornicima.

Predstavljen je u antologijama i zbirkama u Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu (Australija, Bugarska, Francuska, Indija, Italija, Japan, Nizozemska, Poljska, Rumunjska, Rusija, SAD, Slovenija, Srbija i Crna Gora, Velika Britanija). Za svoje haikue osvojio je četrdesetak prestižnih nagrada i priznanja u zemlji i svijetu. Dobitnik je prijelaznoga Ludbreškoga stupa haiku-pjesnika za 2007. godinu, priznanja koje se dodjeljuje na Ludbreškim haikususretima od 2003. godine. Jedan je od autora u dvojezičnim (hrvatski/engleski) zbirkama haikua po sedmero pjesnika Sedam putova/Seven Ways, Zagreb, 2000. i Sedam novih putova/Seven New Ways, Zagreb, 2003. Bio je urednik časopisa Haiku, Zagreb, 2003-2006, član je uredništva časopisa Letni časi, Ljubljana, od 2005, suurednik Haiku-zbornika, Ludbreg, 2001-2006, te najprije suurednik, a potom i glavni urednik Haiku-kalendara, Ludbreg, 2001-2009, kao i član ocjenjivačkih sudova na natječajima za haiku u Hrvatskoj.

Boris Nazansky was born in Rijeka, Croatia on July 16, 1953. He is graduated as an Engineer of Chemistry, writer and journalist. He lives and works in Zagreb and is professionally engaged in enigmatics. He has published over ten thousand riddles and puzzles in various papers and magazines in Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian languages. He is the Editor-in-chief of the puzzle magazine Kvizorama and an author of a collection of the riddles in verse Stišići (Little Verses) published in Bjelovar, 1980. Also, he is an author of a monography Enigmatics of the Varaždin Region (in coauthorship with Milan Đurić), Bjelovar, 1981. He published a collection of puzzles and riddles for children And What is This?, Zagreb, 2001 and a collection of anecdotes Great Men in Comic-strip Storiettes (in co-authorship with Julio Radilović Jules), Zagreb, 2003.

He has been writing haiku in Croatian, English and the Kajkavian dialect for over twenty years and started publishing in 1993 in periodicals, magazines, yearly journals, collections and anthologies in Croatia, as well as in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, and the USA. He has received over fourty prestigeous awards and commendments for his haiku on competitions in Croatia and the world. In 2007 he received the Ludbreg Column of Haiku Poets, a yearly travelling recognition which has been awarded at Ludbreg Haiku Meetings since 2003. He was the editor of magazine Haiku (2005-2006) and elector on the haiku contests. He is a member of the editorial board of the slovenian haiku magazine Letni časi (Seasons) and coeditor of Haiku-zbornik (Haiku Miscellany; Ludbreg 2001-2006) and Haiku Calendar (Ludbreg, 2001-2009). Also, he is among the authors in joint billingual, Croatian/English haiku collections Sedam putova/Seven Ways, Zagreb, 2000 and Novih sedam putova/Seven New Ways, Zagreb, 2003.

1. Zbornik samoborskih haiku susreta/Samobor Haiku Meeting Miscellany 1995;

2. William J. Higginson: Haiku World, An International Poetry Almanac, 1996;

3. Haiku No. 3, 1996;

4. International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 1998, Kumamoto, Japan - 3. nagrada/3rd Prize;

5. HEA Intl. Haiku Contest 1999, Hawaii, USA - 3. nagrada/3rd Prize;

6. Calendar/rokovnik Spreeuwenagenda, Nizozemska/Netherlands, 2000 - 38. tjedan/38th week;

7. Zbornik haiku konkurs/Anthology Haiku Competition ‘AN4-2001’, Novi Sad 2001 - 1. nagrada za haiku na engleskom jeziku/1st

Prize in English language category;

8. Zbornik haiku konkurs/Anthology Haiku Competition ‘AN3-2000’, Novi Sad, 2000 - 3. nagrada/3rd prize;

9. The First International Ashiya Haiku Festa 2000 - Poticajna nagrada grada Ashiye/Haiku Inspirational Award;

10. 100 hrvatskih haiku, antologija za igru Haiku karte/100 Croatian Haiku, An anthology for the Haiku Cards Game, DHHP,

Zagreb, 2000;

11. International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2002, Kumamoto, Japan - 3. nagrada/3rd Prize;

12. Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, hrvatski standard/Croatian language category 2004 - pohvala/Commendation;

13. Senje i meteori 2005, Zbornik pjesama s XIII. recitala suvremenog hrvatskog pjesništva/Recital of modern Croatian poetry,

Varaždinsko književno društvo/Varaždin literary society, Varaždin, 2005;

14. World Haiku 2006 No.2; World Haiku Association;

15. Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, hrvatski standard/Croatian language category 2005 - pohvala/Commendation;

16. Duško Matas (izdavač/publisher): Novih sedam putova/Seven New Ways, Zagreb, 2003;

17. Suruga Baika (Šljivin cvijet/Plum Blossom), Numazu, Japan, 2001 – 1. nagrada / 1st Prize (ex aequo);

18. Concorso Internazionale di Poesia Haiku in Lingua Italiana, Cascina Macondo, Torino, Italija, 2006 - počasno priznanje/

Segnalazione di Merito/Honorable mention;

19. KŌ, Haiku Magazine in English, Vol 21 No. 4, Autumn-Winter 2006;

20. http://www.uta-ergi.com/haiku-croatia/,

21. Vrč pun latica/A Jug full of Petals, Književna akademija/Academy of literature, Beograd, 2005;

22. Vrabac/Sparrow, 27-28, jesen-zima/autumn-winter 1999; 29-30, proljeće-ljeto/spring-summer 2000;

23. http://www.karolina-rijecka.com/clanovi_haiku_pjesnici.html;

24. International Yellow Moon Haiku Competition, March 2001 - Worth Inclusion;

25. Ito-En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 2001 - počasno priznanje/Honourable Mention; 26. Ito-En, 13th

International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 2002 – Nagrada sljednika/Runner up;

27. Duško Matas (izdavač/publisher): Sedam putova/Seven Ways, Zagreb, 2000;

28. Treći internacionalni haiku-konkurs časopisa Lotos/Third International Haiku Contest, Lotos magazine, Valjevo, Jugoslavija/

Yugoslavia, 2002 – kategorija klasični haiku/classical haiku category – 1. nagrada/1st Prize;

29. 16. haiku-festival, Odžaci, Srbija i Crna Gora, 2005 – 1. nagrada/1st Prize;

30. Haiku and Music, First international haiku contest of Bulgarian haiku club, 2006 – 1. nagrada/1st Prize

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