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Bio
On a deserted land
a tiny fanfare
in bloom
Ken Sawitri, "Beyond The Limits," June 17th, 2015
Ken Sawitri was born in Blora, Central Java, Indonesia, and completed her degree in psychology at Universitas Indonesia (1993). She was writing from the Psychology & Education desk of "Ayahbunda" magazine (1995-1998). She had the first publication in Indonesian national mass media when she was in junior high school. Reading Arakida Moritake when she was a teen, now she writes her own haiku for Japan daily newspapers (Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun), and television (NHK Haiku Masters) and other international haiku publications.
Member of the United Haiku and Tanka Society and was chosen to be the UHTS Ambassador for Indonesia. She dedicated her haiku for her motherland in “Listen, The Spice Whispers, haiku from Indonesian archipelago” and noted her journey in writing haiku in and noted her journey in writing haiku in "Give Yourself A Kiss".
Honours:
Awarded the Second Prize DIOGEN Summer 2013 Haiku Contest and the Izbor Radova (Choice of Poems) DIOGEN Haiku Contest Summer 2013 and Autumn 2013; the Honourable Mention from Mongolian Haiku Association in the First Kukai "Time to Bloom Pasqueflowers" (2015); the Honorable Mention in The Second International Kukai "Drop leaves"; the Honourable Mention in The 3rd Haiku Contest on Theme "Gourds" in The 12th Ivanić Grad Pumpkin Festival organized by Three Rivers Haiku Association, Ivanić Grad, Croatia (2016).
Her haiku has been chosen being haiga by Ron C. Moss ("A Hundred Gourds", 2015). In 2016, one of her haiku was chosen to be published in "Haiku 2016, 100 notable haiku from 2015" (Scott Metz & Lee Gurga (Eds.), 2016, Modern Haiku Press). Her haiku about animal suffering has been published in "Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku" edited by Robert Epstein and Miriam Wald (2016).
In collaboration with Jimat Achmadi, two of their haiga have been awarded as the Editor’s Choice in "Cattails" May 2014 Edition and September 2014 Edition. Their haiga also chosen being in The 132nd and 133rd WHA Haiga Contest (2015).
Her haiku and her photo haiku, her collaborative photo haiku with Jimat Achmadi were chosen to be exhibit in the NHK World "HAIKU MASTERS" Gallery and TV program. In collaboration with Aisha Shifa, her photo haiku was chosen being Haiku Master of the Week (January 2018) ; and awarded in the 10th Komatsu Visual Haiku Contest (2022).
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