Horst Ludwig Horst Ludwig, Associate Professor of German at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, USA, originally from Germany, is active in Pegnesischer Blumenorden von 1644 (Pegnesian Flower Order of 1644) in Nuremberg, in Deutsche Haiku-Gesellschaft (German Haiku Society), Haiku International Association, Tokyo, Haiku Society of America, and other literary and linguistic associations. 1981 he published *Wind im Bambusspiel: Sechsunddreißig Haiku* (Wind in bamboo chimes: 36 haiku), which was reissued 1991 with an English translation by Nancy Hanson Nash. In 1993 he won the Robert L. Kahn Prize for the best German poetry text by a resident of North America. At the 2001 Suruga Baika Literature Festival, his "Outside the clinic / a crow, slow, stepping away / from some carrion" received the Certificate of Excellence, and his "Icy funeral - / the old florist arriving / late with his flowers" was recognized as one of the three best texts in the 2001 issues of *kô: Haiku Magazine in English* ["immaculate"]. In 2002 he won a Supplementary Award in the Hoshi to Mori Tanka Competition with "Some summer evenings / the Angelus bells still ring / from the rich city // which the sea once swallowed up / many centuries ago." Also in 2002, his haiku "A child in the door / watching the old man walk by / in the autumn rain" was given a 3rd Prize in the 7th Kusamakura Haiku Competition of Kumamoto City, Japan.
Translation by Horst Ludwig.
Horst Ludwig
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