| Born in Pakrac, Darko Plazanin lives in Samobor and works
in Zagreb as a warehouseman. He writes haiku almost a quarter
of a century and publishes it in many domestic and foreign reviews,
journals and anthologies. His haiku verses had been, among others,
translated into Japanese, English, German, French, Hungarian,
Romanian, Flamanian and Irish language. He is one of the most
represented Croatian haiku poets abroad. He received numerous
awards and had been commended repeatedly. On International Haiku
Contest in Japan, 1990, on the occasion of the Day of Japan Culture,
he received a Grand Prix of Japan with an invitation for tendence
to the award bestoval. As a member of Matica Hrvatska Samobor
he is the organizer of Samobor Haiku Meetings and
the editor of the Zbornik, the miscellany of these haiku
encounters in Samobor. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial
staff of some other haiku publications. He had published independent
haiku collections as follows: Murmur of the Water (1989),
The Every Day Road (1990) and Samobor (1995). Also,
he is one of the authors in common billingual (Croatian/English)
haiku collection Seven Ways (Zagreb, 2000) and Seven
New Ways (Zagreb, 2003). |
