Iztok Geister
Born (1945-08-20) 20 August 1945
Laško, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • essayist
  • lawyer
  • ornithologist
Notable worksLevitve, Pospala poželenja
Notable awardsRožanc Award
2001 for Levitve
Prešeren Foundation Award
2004 for Pospala poželenja

Iztok Geister (born 20 August 1945) is a Slovene writer, poet, essayist and ornithologist. He is best known for his avant-garde poetry from the mid-1960s and 1970s. He is also one of the founding members of the Slovenian branch of BirdLife International.[1]

Geister was born in Laško in 1945. He studied law at the University of Ljubljana but has worked as a freelance artist and naturalist for over thirty years.[2] In 2001 he received the Rožanc Award for his essays Levitve (Moultings). In 2005 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for his book Pospala poželenja.[3]

Published work

Prose

  • Levitve (2001)
  • Pospala poželenja (2002)
  • Mojster zloženih peruti (2003)
  • Ljubljansko barje (1995)
  • Nenavadni izleti : v slovensko naravo (2003)
  • Sečoveljske soline (2004)
  • Naravni zakladi Brda pri Kranju (2006)

References


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