Katja Špur Explained

Katja Špur
Birth Date:20 November 1908[1]
Birth Place:Gornje Krapje, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
Death Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia

Katja Špur (20 November 1908 – 18 December 1991) was a Yugoslav journalist, writer, poet and translator. She wrote poetry, children's books and contributed articles to numerous journals, newspapers and children's magazines.[2] She won the Levstik Award for her journalistic work in 1949.[3] She graduated from the Facility of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana subsequently working as a journalist and educator as well as translator from Bulgarian into Slovene.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Stanko Janež . Živan Milisavac . 1971 . Jugoslovenski književni leksikon . Yugoslav Literary Lexicon . . sh . Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) . 530 .
  2. https://archive.today/20121203030502/http://nl.ijs.si/fedora/get/sbl:3591/VIEW/ Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  3. Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 4 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 26 August 2018 . dead .