KONNO, Mari

tanka poet; resident in Fukui City, Japan;
lecturer for NHK academic tanka course; selector of tanka from the Jakuetsu forum for the Asahi newspaper.
member of the Mirai (Future) group; member of the editorial committee for Mirai Journal; member of the Nihon Kajin Club (Japan Tanka Society); member of International Tanka Society;  editor in chief of INTERNATIONAL TANKA (2017 -  May 2020) ;

2010 guest for Ventspils International Writers' and Translators' House (Latvia)
2010 international guest for POETRY DAYS 2010 Latvia; 
2012 Hoshijo-rokka concerts:Snow Crystal * Star-shaped : Reverberations of Bamboo Flutes and Tanka Poetry 2012 in Japan)
2013 Hoshijo-rokka concerts: international guest for POETRY DAYS 2013 Latvia
2013 Tanka readings in Minsk, Belarus.

Awards:
1999 Tanka Splendor Award
2000 recieved 43rd Tanka Research New Poets' Award for her tanka sequence 'Meeting King Pluto'
2008 recieved 34 th Contemporary Tankaists' Association Award for her collection Snow Crystal * Star-shaped
2016 received 

Publications:
2002 Supersaturasion: Azure (published by Tanka Kenkyusha)
2008 Snow Crystal * Star-shaped :Japanese edition (published by Tanka Kenkyusha)
2010 Trilingual tanka* Hoshijo-rokka: Snow Crystal * Star-shaped: Zvaigžņveida  sniega kristāls  (Japanese - English - Latvian) (published by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., LTD)
2015 Snow and Latvia* Beyond Azure (published by Tanka Kenkyusha)

English Tanka & Renga:
1999 Tanka Splendor 1999 (AHA Books, USA)
2001 'Incarnation' (renga) in Moondust (Koyama Press, France)
2004 'Sanctuary' (renga) in Sanctuary (Koyama Press, France)
2006 tanka sequence in Peace (Koyama Press, France)
2007 tanka sequence in The Tao of Water (Koyama Press, France)