Berta Bojetu (also Berta Bojetu Boeta; 7 February 1946 – 16 March 1997) was a Slovene writer, poet and actress.

Life

Bojetu was born in

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in 1946. She studied at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana. She worked at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and was one of the cofounders of the theatre group ''Koreodrama''. She died in Ljubljana in 1997. In 1996 she received the Kresnik Award for her novel ''Ptičja hiša'' (The Birdhouse). In 2002 an international symposium about Bojetu's work was organised in Maribor. The papers given at the symposium were published in 2004. She was the mother of the historian and translator Klemen Jelinčič Boeta.

Published works

* ''Žabon'', poetry, (1979) * ''Besede iz hiše Karlstein'', poetry, (1988) * '' Filio ni doma'' (Filo is not at Home), novel, (1980)English excerpt from the novel on Thezaurus, Slovenian Culture and Language Resources site
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References

1946 births 1997 deaths Slovenian Jews Slovenian poets Jewish women writers Jewish poets Yugoslav actresses Slovenian puppeteers Actors from Maribor Kresnik Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni Slovenian women poets 20th-century Slovenian women writers 20th-century Slovenian writers 20th-century poets Writers from Maribor {{slovenia-writer-stub