Marija Mijot

Marija Mijot (May 23,1902 – August 6, 1994) was a Slovenian seamstress, dialectal poet, writer and playwright. She was important for her literary work in which she preserved the atmosphere, customs and traditions of working-class Slovene minority in Trieste.

Childhood Marija Mijot was born into a Slovene family on 23 May 1902 in San Giovanni, a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy). Her mother was washerwoman Ivanka Hrovatin, and her father carpenter Anton Mijot. During the war, she wrote her first poems

Published works Betuon (play) Dva vinska bratca in nočne prikazni (one-act play) Mandrjerke se pričkajuo: slike iz življenja svetoivanskih strin (play) Slika iz življenja svetoivanksih manderjerjev (play) Na izletu (play) Souze jn smeh (poetry, 1962) Souze jn smeh (poetry, 1969) Lučke. Božična balada (poetry, 1969) Lučke. Na božično viljo pad kaminan: (slika mandrjarjev) (poetry, 1969) Kar naprej trajati: šest tržaških pesnikov (poetry, 1994) Otroške pesmi in dramski prizori (various literary forms, 2012)