Franko Bušić was born on May 8, 1971 in Split (he grew up in Sarajevo and lived in Zagreb, Milan, Ljubljana, Split, Ivanić Grad). Japanese Television NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI made the documentary film about his work (in Ljubljana 2000); while OTV devoted him one of its TV shows “Lollipop” (Rijeka 2001).
He is the member of the World Haiku Association, honorary member of the Otočani Theatre – Ivanić Grad; he is the member of the SRP review editorial board – Ljubljana (http://www.revijasrp.si). Furthermore, Franko Bušić is the winner of two Letters of thanks for humanitarian contribution to plastic art (Split 1997. and 1999.) as well as the winner of the second prize at the 1. Slovenian Haiku Poetry Contest (Ljubljana 1998.) He also played football for Slovenian literary football team.
During his career he has also been the member of: International Poets Movement POPOPO – Ljubljana, Haiku International Association – Tokyo, The Haiku Society of America – New York, as well as the member of 5 less significant associations from Slovenia and Croatia.
He has published a lot of poetry, fiction, essays, comic books, illustrations, collage and photographs in number of Slovenian, American, Japanese, Greek, Australian, Czech, Yugoslav and Croatian magazines and publications; the most significant of which was cooperation with the SRP and Apokalipsa reviews from Ljubljana and Nova Atlantida from Kranj. The data about his work can be found on the world art pages by searching Franko Busic, Franko Busić, Franko Bushić and Franko Bušić on Internet.
He participated in number of literary gatherings, art colonies, multimedia happenings, as well as in 26 collective exhibitions in Croatia and Slovenia; he also illustrated number of books and magazines and is represented by his haiku poetry in 3 anthologies.
BOOKS:
THEY WILL BLOW YOUR DAMN HEAD UP (poetry) translated by Jurij Hudolin and Ivo Antič, Apokalipsa, Ljubljana 1998.
THE POSTBALKAN (collection of the antiwar fiction published on Internet), translated by Namita Subiotto, SRP, Ljubljana 2000.
NOBODY’S SCOUNDREL LIKE ME (poetry), Agapa, Kloštar Ivanić 2001.