Maruša Krese

Maruša Krese (13 April 1947 – 7 January 2013) was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. 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 1970s.

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

In 1997, Krese was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts in the Bosnian War.

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).

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, 2012

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