NIKOLA KRALJIĆ

Rođen je 1930. u Omišlju na otoku Krku. Diplomirao na Filozofskome fakultetu u Zagrebu, član je Društva hrvatskih književnika. Bavi se prevođenjem, kritikom i recenzijama s područja književnosti i filozofije. Piše od gimnazijskih dana, te je što na književnoj štokavici, što na čakavici ukupno objavio 31 knjigu poezije. Za svoja djela više je puta nagrađivan. Međunarodni biografski institut Cambridge 1991. i Američki biografski institut North Caroline 1992. nominirali su toga pjesnika i psihologa za čovjeka godine i uvrstili ga u knjigu Who is Who (Tko je tko). Haiku piše na čakavskom narječju, a 1995. godine objavio je zbirku Izabrane pjesme.

Born in 1930 in Omiš, the island Krk, graduated from the Arts Faculty in Zagreb. He has published essays, reviews in the field of literature and philosophy, translates and writes poetry since Secondary school days, in Croatian literature language and Tschakavian Dialect, a member of the Union of Croatian Writers, Zagreb. So far he has published 31 books of free-verse poetry and poetical prose. He is a member of many civilian and cultural societies. For his work he has been awarded several times, and nominated for the Man of the Year by the International Biographical Institute Cambridge 1991, the American Biographical Institute North Caroline 1992 and has been selected in the book Who is Who. He published a haiku collection Izabrane pjesme (Choice of poems) in 1995.

1. Hvatanje sjenke vjetra/Catturare l’ombra del vento/Grasping the Shadow of Wind, regionalna antologija haikua, Rijeka, 1999 by

Mile Stamenković and Jadran Zalokar;

2-3. Haiku u Dalmaciji, izbor-eseji, Zbornik 2001;

4. Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik: Choice of haiku, Ludbreg 2005;

5. http://www.karolina-rijecka.com/senryu.html