Graduated engineer of chemistry, Boris Nazansky was born in Rijeka in 1953, lived in Varazdin, graduated from University of Zagreb, where he works. He is a writer and journalist, professionaly engaged in enigmatics, being the editor-in-chief of the puzzle magazine Kvizorama. He published the riddles in verse Stisici (Little Verses) Bjelovar 1980; is the co-author of Enigmatics of the Varazdin Region, Bjelovar 1981; the author of collection of puzzles and riddles for children And What is This?, Zagreb, 2001, co-author of a collection of anegdotes Great Men in Comic-strip Storiettes, Zagreb, 2003.

He writes haiku for more than twenty years and publishes it since 1993 in periodicals, magazines, yearly journals, miscellanies and anthologies in Croatia and abroad (Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, India, Japan, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Russia, USA). He received more than twenty awards and commendments.

His haiku have been published in common bilingual (Croatian /English) haiku collection Seven Ways, Zagreb, 2000, and Seven New Ways, Zagreb, 2003. He is a member of The Association of Croatian Haiku Poets and the co-editor of billingual (Croatian/English) haiku magazine Haiku since Spring 2003, published twice a year in Zagreb. Also, he is the editor-in-chief of the Haiku Calendar 2004 published in Ludbreg.

Author: Boris Nazansky
Editor: Djurdja V. Rozic
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International Awards and Commendments

ko visibabe / Ito En, 1994
svjetluca nebo / Haiku Headlines, USA, 1997
kroz zaluzine / Hawaii, 1999
u staroj brajdi / Kusamakura, 1999
svitanje ljulja / Kusamakura, 1999
mjesecev titraj / Haiku Calendar, Spreeuwenagenda 2000, Netherlands
cvrsto za ruke / Ashiya, 2000
uv'jek iznova / "AN3 -2000", Novi Sad
sjena djecaka /Yellow Moon, March 2001
netom oteljen / Ito En 2001
na starom panju / "AN-2001", Novi Sad
susjed je umro / Suruga Baika, Numazu, 2001
hladna cipela / Apokalipsa, Ljubljana, 2001
nacas svjetlijim / Haiku Calendar, Spreeuwenagenda 2001, Netherlands
vruci crepovi / Ito En, 2002
opet snijezi / Kusamakura, 2002

Domaca priznanja / Domestic Awards and Commendments

ubogi starac / Vrabac/Sparrow, 1993
sunceva zraka / Croatian Haiku Associtation Annual Contest, Samobor 1999
zbunjeni guster / Visnja McMaster: 100 Croatian Haiku, An Anthology for the Haiku Cards game, Zagreb, The Association of Croatian Haiku Poets, Zagreb
cez trosne gatre / 'Haiku-dan Dubravko Ivancan', Krapina, 2003