Poet Profile

Vladimir Šuk

Vladimir Šuk is a writer, painter and sculptor, an amateur charicaturist and photographer who publishes prose, poetry and haiku. He has received about thirty awards for his prose and poetry in Croatian and Kajkavian dialect and has been presented in a number of joint collections in Croatia. He takes part in most recitals of poetry, contests for prose and many a cultural and art event in Croatia. He organized and founded a number of projects in art and culture of Hrvatsko Zagorje.

Awards and Other Honors: Commendation, The 6th Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest (Croatia, 2008); Commendation, The Haiku Contest organized by the Romanian Kukai Group, "Sharpening the Green Pencil" (2016); Third Prize, 15th Haiku Day "Dubravko Ivančan" (Krapina, Croatia, 2013); First Prize, 16th Haiku Day "Dubravko Ivančan" (Krapina, Croatia, 2014); Commendation, 10th Pumpkin Festival (Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2014); Third Prize, 17th Haiku Day "Dubravko Ivančan" (Krapina, Croatia, 2015); Commendation, The Haiku Contest organized by the Romanian Kukai Group, "Sharpening the Green Pencil" (2016); Commendation, The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award (Osaka, Japan, 2016).

start of spring…
the sky cracked
on the pond ice

bent cypress 
its wooden spine pressed by 
a humpback of snow

dry stone wall
a young lizard gathers
the sunrays

wartime salvo
with badges decorated
of the dead crew

these two frogs 　
compete croaking　
deep into the night

an empty table
between the dates awaiting
the retirement check

Credits: "start of spring" – Commendation, The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award (Osaka, Japan, 2016); "dry stone wall" – Commendation, The Haiku Contest organized by the Romanian Kukai Group, "Sharpening the Green Pencil" (2016); "these two frogs" – Haiku Special, The 3rd Japan- Russia Haiku Contest; "bent cypress" – Third Prize, 17th Haiku Day "Dubravko Ivančan" (Krapina, Croatia, 2015); "wartime salvo" – The 40th A-Bomb Memorial Day-Haiku Meeting (Kyoto 2006); "an empty table" – 4th Haiku Day - "Dubravko Ivančan" (Krapina, Croatia).