Eleonore Nickolay (born 1957, Koblenz, Germany), journalist and German teacher, editor, and haikai poet. She is a copresident of the Deutsche Haiku-Gesellschaft and an editor of its journal Sommergras, as well as a copresident of the Association Francophone de Haïku and an editor of Gong. Her haiku in German have appeared in Haiku heute, Sommergras, and Tageshaiku, and a book Dreiviertelmond (2023); her French haiku are published in journals, anthologies, and a book, Le Pain surprise (2018), and won First Place in Haiku Canada’s Le Prix Jocelyne-Villeneuve (2019). Nickolay has participated in several online kukai. Her other work in English can be seen in the Mainichi and Asahi newspaper haiku columns and the journals Chrysanthemum, Failed Haiku, and Revista Haiku (Romania), among others. She was listed on the European Top 100 Haiku Authors (2015–2020). Haiga of hers have appeared on the World Haiku Association and NHK Haiku Masters websites and won the top prize in the 2017 Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo Haiku Contest. Nickolay resides in Vaires-sur-Marne, France.
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