Maruša Krese
Year of birth: 1947
Place of birth: Ljubljana
lives in Berlin

Translators' House Wales
01. January 2012 -
31. January 2012



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01. February 2012 -
29. February 2012

Heute nicht, translated from Slovenian to German by Fabjan Hafner, Drava Klagenfurt/Celovec 2009, Alle meine Kriege. Happiness is a warm gun, translated from Slovenian to German by Daniela Kocmut und Katja Lenič, Leykam Graz 2006, Alle meine Weihnachten, translated from Slovenian to German by Fabjan Hafner, Drava Klagenfurt/Celovec 2006, with Robert Reithofer (Ed.): Ohne Angst verschieden sein - Chance Migration, Leykam Graz 2008, with Gerhild Steinbuch (Ed.): Ich. Stadtschreiberin - Schlossbergflash, Leykam Graz 2007

Maruša Krese was born in 1947 in Ljubljana. She studied literature, art history and psychotherapy in Ljubljana, London, and Utrecht. From 1975 to 1989 she worked as a psychotherapist in Ljubljana, London and Tübingen. From 1990 to 1991 she was Berlin correspondent for Slovenian radio. She is a member of PEN Center in Germany since 1998.

Krese writes poetry, short stories, features and radio plays. She lives in Berlin.

In 1997 she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts in the Bosnian war. In 2005 she received a grant from the city of Graz (City-Writer of Graz).

The HALMA grant is supported by the Slovenian Book Agency and GOGA publishing house.