Maruša Krese
Maruša Krese was a Slovene poet, writer and journalist. She lived and worked in Berlin. In 1997 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts in the Bosnian War.
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. Since 1992 she has been working as a freelance journalist and writer in Berlin. 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.Prose
- Vsi moji božiči, short stories,
- Vse moje vojne, short stories,
- Da me je strah?, novel,
Poetry
- Danes,
- Postaje,
- Sarajevo, ljubavi moja,
- Beseda,
- Selbst das Testament ging verloren,
- Yorkshire Tasche
- Heute nicht
