Maruša Krese (13 April 1947 – 7 January 2013) was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. Krese was born in

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in 1947. She studied literature and

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at the

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and

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and

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in the United States in the early 1970s. She worked as a group therapist in

and

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, and was a Slovene radio correspondent in Berlin in the early 1990s. From 1992 onward she worked as a freelance journalist and writer in

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. In 1997, Krese was awarded the

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for her

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in the

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. In 2008 she won the

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for best collection of short prose in Slovene published within the previous two years for her work ''Vsi moji božiči'' (All My Christmases).

Prose

* ''Vsi moji božiči'' (All My Christmases), short stories, 2006 * ''Vse moje vojne'' (All My Wars), short stories, 2009 * ''Da me je strah?'' (That I Am Afraid?), novel, 2012Goga Publishing House site
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Poetry

* ''Danes'' (Today), 1989 * ''Postaje'' (Stations), 1992 * ''Sarajevo, ljubavi moja'' (Sarajevo, My Love), 1994 * ''Beseda'' (The Word), 1994 * ''Selbst das Testament ging verloren'' (Even the Will Was Lost), 2001 * ''Yorkshire Tasche'' (Yorkshire Bag), 2003 * ''Heute nicht'' (Not Today), 2009

References

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