Maruša Krese | |
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Born | 13 April 1947 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
Occupation | poet, writer, journalist |
Notable work(s) | Vsi moji božiči, Vse moje vojne |
Notable award(s) | Fabula Award 2008 Vsi moji božiči |
Maruša Krese (born 13 April 1947) is a Slovene poet, writer and journalist.[1] She lives and works in Berlin. In 1997 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts in the Bosnian War.
Krese was born in Ljubljana in 1947. She studied literature and art history at the University of Ljubljana and psychodrama and Gestalt therapy in the United States in the early 1970's. She worked as a group therapist in Ljubljana and Tübingen and was a Slovene radio correspondent in Berlin in the early 1990's. Since 1992 she has been working as a freelance journalist and writer in Berlin.[2] In 2008 she won the Fabula Award for best collection of short prose in Slovene published within the previous two years for her work Vsi moji božiči (All my Christmases).[3]