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Gilles Fabre was born
in France but resides now in Ireland where he currently works in sports
administration following previous works as a teacher and free-lance
translator.
He has a Masters of Translation (Philip Larkin Poems) from La Sorbonne
(Paris).
Gilles started writing haiku in the mid 1990’s when he took a year's
sabbatical to travel around the world and published his first haiku in
Australia during this trip and has been following the Haiku Way since
then.
He sees haiku as a way of life as each haiku unveils something most of
us had not noticed or felt, points at a moment we failed or did not
bother to experience or simply reveals, under a different angle or a
new perspective, a truth we’ve known from the start and proves us every
moment and experience we go through in our life is meaningful.
He is the editor of the international bilingual haiku site
www.haikupsirit.org (English and French)
His haiku have been published in English, French and Japanese in
various journals, including:
Haiku Spirit (Ireland); Presence (UK); Blithe Spirit (UK); Mushimegane
(Japan);
and the following international anthologies:
HAIKU Sans Frontières (Editions David, 1998. Canada); The New
Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002. UK); Chevaucher la Lune (Editions David,
2002. Canada); Anthologie du Haïku en France (Aléas
Editeur, 2003. France); World Haiku 2005 No. 1 (Edited by World Haiku
Association, Nishida-shoten inc. Publisher, 2004. Japan).
One of his haiku has won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award granted
by The British Haiku Society (Blithe Spirit, Journal of, Volume 7,
Number 4).
He is the editor of Haiku Spirit,
a
bilingual haiku site.
His first collection of haiku - Because of a
Seagull - has just been published by The Fishing Cat
Press.