photo by Ádám T. Bogár
Rebeka Sára (birth name Hungarian style Szigethy Rebeka Sára, born November 15, 1983, Budapest, Hungary), fine artist, haikai poet, linguist, editor, essayist, and translator. Her haiku volume, an installation of texts and objects, was exhibited at the World Haiku Festival 2010 (Pécs, Hungary). She won First Prize in the 2011 Sakura Festival Haiga Contest (Botanical Garden of Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest). Since 2006 she has been publishing her Hungarian- and English-language haiku, haiku-related essays, and literary translations in journals including Napút, ÚjNautilus, The Muse, and Blithe Spirit. With Ádám T. Bogár she coedited the bilingual haiku journal kontinuum. She was a presenter at the 3rd International Haiku Conference, Kraków, Poland, 2024. She resides in Folkestone, Kent, U.K.
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