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

• Razdalje telesa (Body Distances), 1984
• Način vezave (Ways of Binding), 1988
• Ihta smeri (Urgent Direction: Selected Poems), 1989
• Ob vznožju (At the Base), 1998
• Prisotnost (Presence), 2005
• Sobe (Rooms), 2008

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