Maruša Krese is a Slovene poet

Poet

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, writer

Writer

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 and journalist

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. She lives and works in Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1997 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts

Humanitarianism

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 in the Bosnian War

Bosnian War

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.

Krese was born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 in 1947. She studied literature

Literature

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 and art history

Art history

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 at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 and psychodrama

Psychodrama

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 and Gestalt therapy

Gestalt therapy

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 in the United States

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 in the early 1970's. She worked as a group therapist in Ljubljana and Tübingen

Tübingen

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 and was a Slovene radio correspondent in Berlin in the early 1990's. Since 1992 she has been working as a freelance journalist and writer in Berlin. In 2008 she won the Fabula Award

Fabula Award

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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)

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)