Vida Brest

Vida Brest (true name Majda Peterlin) (21 July 1925 – 10 November 1985) was a Yugoslav Slovene-language poet, writer, journalist, and teacher, best known for her juvenile fiction, often based on her own experiences as a young Partisan during the Second World War.

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.

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