Vida Brest

Vida Brest (true name Majda Peterlin) (21 July 1925 – 10 November 1985) was a YugoslavSlovene language poet, writer, journalist and teacher, best known for her juvenile fiction, often based on her own experiences as a young woman partisan during the Second World War.^[1]

Brest was born in Šentrupert in Lower Carniola in 1925. At the age of 17 she joined the resistance movement and after the end of the Second World War became a journalist and teacher. She later devoted herself to writing, her main inspiration being her own experiences during the war, but also wrote fairy tales and children's stories. From a very early age she also wrote poetry, with her first poems being published by the partisan press during the war. A selection of her best poems was published posthumously in 1995, selected and edited by Ivan Minatti.

She won the Levstik Award in 1984 for her book of stories from the resistance entiteled Majhen človek na veliki poti (A Small Man on a Big Road).^[2]

Published works

Poetry

• 16 pesmi Vide Brest (16 Poems of Vida Brest), 1944
• Pesmi (Poems), 1947
• Mihčeve pesmi (Little Miha's Poems), 1951
• Teci, teci, soncu reci (Run, Run, Tell the Sun), 1986
• Tiho, tiho srce (Silent, Silent Heart), (selected and edited by Ivan Minatti), 1995

Prose

• Pravljica o mali Marjetici, zajčku, medvedu in zlati pomladi (The Story of Little Margaret, the Bunny, the Teddy and the Golden Spring), 1951,1958
• Ptice in grm (The Birds and the Bush), 1955, 1961
• Orehovo leto (The Year of the Walnut), 1955, 1972
• Popotovanje v Tunizijo (A Trip to Tunisia), 1967
• Veliki čarovnik Ujtata (The Great Wizard Ujtata), 1974
• Prodajamo za gumbe (We Sell Buttons), 1976
• Majhen človek na veliki poti (A Small Man on a Big Road), 1983
• Mala Marjetica in gozdni mož (Little Margaret and the Forest Man), 1985
• Teci, teci, soncu reci (Run, Run, Tell the Sun), (selected and edited by Niko Grafenauer), 1986

References

v t e Municipality of Šentrupert Settlements Administrative centre: Šentrupert Bistrica Brinje Dolenje Jesenice Draga pri Šentrupertu Gorenje Jesenice Hom Hrastno Kamnje Kostanjevica Mali Cirnik pri Šentjanžu Okrog Prelesje Ravne nad Šentrupertom Rakovnik pri Šentrupertu Ravnik Roženberk Škrljevo Slovenska Vas Straža Trstenik Vesela Gora Vrh Zabukovje Zaloka Landmarks Barbo Manor Land of Hayracks Pilgrims' Trail Simončič Hayrack Škrljevo Castle Stone bridge in Bistrica St. Rupert's Parish Church Notable people Justin Arhar Josip Emanuel Barbo Vida Brest Jože Frelih Leopold Gorenjec Ivan Gregorčič Janko Gregorčič Eduard Hoffer Aleksander Lunaček Pavel Lunaček Gorazd Sotler Ivan Steklasa Jožef Stergar