Maja Vidmar

Maja Vidmar (born 28 June 1961) is a Slovene poet, author of several poetry collections.[1][2]

For the Slovenian climber, see Maja Vidmar (climber).
Maja Vidmar
Born(1961-06-28)28 June 1961
Nova Gorica, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupationpoet
Notable worksPrisotnost
Notable awardsJenko Award
2005 for Prisotnost
Prešeren Foundation Award
2006 for Prisotnost

For her collection of poems Prisotnost (Presence) she won the Jenko Award in 2005 [3] and the Prešeren Foundation Award in 2006.[4]

Poetry collections
  • Razdalje telesa (Body Distances), 1984
  • Način vezave (Ways of Binding), 1988
  • Ihta smeri (Urgent Direction: Selected Poems), 1989
  • Ob vznožju (At the Base), 1998
  • Prisotnost (Presence), 2005
  • Sobe (Rooms), 2008
gollark: They're pretty rational if you actually believe your religion is true, though.
gollark: Looking at religious conflicts probably doesn't require knowing about all the deep details of the religions involved, because people do tribalism and probably do not meaningfully care about the actual underlying point.
gollark: You can just study history, though.
gollark: Why?
gollark: I should try finetuning GPT models on religious texts some time!

References
  1. "Arc Publications site". Six Slovenian Poets (in Slovenian). Arc Publications. Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  2. Harold B. Segel The Columbia literary history of Eastern Europe since 1945, Columbia University Press, 2008, pg.241
  3. RTV Slovenija Jenkova nagrada Maji Vidmar (The Jenko Awards Goes to Maja Vidmar), 16 December 2005)
  4. Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients



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