Aleksandar Nejgebauer - Haiku Club
Anthology Haiku Competition "AN4 - 2001"
For the forth
haiku competition "AN4-2001" announced in April 2000 by the
Yugoslavia-Japan Friendship Society, the Novi Sad University Section and
the "Aleksandar Nejgebauer" Haiku Club, 210 authors sent their
works, 153 of them from Yugoslavia and 57 from other countries (Australia
3, Canada 3, Croatia 4, Romania 6, USA 13, Japan 1, Holland 1, Greece
1, England 1, UK 2, GB 1, Belgium 1, Slovenia 3, Republic Srpska 11, Deutschland
1, New Zealand 2, Ireland 1, Scotland 1). In the category "Haiku
in Serbian" 160 participants entered their works, in the category
"Haiku in English" 86 participants and in the category "Haibun
in Serbian" 37 participants.
The first part of the volume brings the reports of the judges Dimitar Anakiev, Prof. Vladislava Felbabov and Nevena Simin. In the second part of the volume, the awarded, specially mentioned and selected works in all the three categories are published, along with other works by the competition participants, as selected by the editor. At the end of the volume there is a list of all of the authors who have participated in the competition.
Prof. Vladislava Felbabov has translated the "Preface" into English, the awarded poems in the category "Haiku in Serbian", and various other texts. She has translated from English into Serbian the poems awarded in the category "Haiku in English". She has also edited some of the haiku poems sent for the competition in English, by those participants from countries where English is not the native language.
Nebojša Simin
in English
in Serbian