Maja Vidmar Explained

Maja Vidmar
Birth Date:28 June 1961
Birth Place:Nova Gorica, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation:poet
Notableworks:Prisotnost

Maja Vidmar (born 28 June 1961) is a Slovene poet, author of several poetry collections.[1] [2]

For her collection of poems Prisotnost (Presence) she won the Jenko Award in 2005 [3] and the Prešeren Foundation Award in 2006.[4]

Poetry collections

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arc Publications site . Slovenian . Six Slovenian Poets . Arc Publications . 26 January 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080314221856/http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/biography.htm?writer_id=260# . 2008-03-14 . dead .
  2. Harold B. Segel The Columbia literary history of Eastern Europe since 1945, Columbia University Press, 2008, pg.241
  3. http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/jenkova-nagrada-maji-vidmar/141242 Jenkova nagrada Maji Vidmar (The Jenko Awards Goes to Maja Vidmar)
  4. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernovega_sklada_1962-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients