Marija Makarovič, née Jagodic, (born 15 August 1930) is a Slovene

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. Makarovič was born in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

in 1930. After graduating from the University of Ljubljana in 1953 she worked as a

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at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum from 1953 until 1989. From 1993 to 1997 she led the '' Urban Jarnik Slovene Ethnographic Institute'' in

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. In 2001 she was one of the co-founders of ''Centre for Biographic Research'' in Ljubljana together with Prof. Dr. Mojca Ramšak. In 1979 she won the

Levstik Award The Levstik Award ( sl, Levstikova nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded for achievements in children's literature. It has been bestowed since 1949 by the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, making it the first literary award established ...

for her book ''Kmečka abeceda'' and ''Kmečko gospodarstvo na Slovenskem'' (The Farmer's Alphabet ''and'' Farm Management in Slovenia). In 2014 she won the Deklica s Piščalko Award, which is awarded by county Kočevje for professionalism in the fields of art, culture, and humanitarian sciences.

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