Katja Špur
Born(1908-11-20)20 November 1908[1]
Gornje Krapje, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)[1]
Died18 December 1991(1991-12-18) (aged 83)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • writer
  • poet
  • translator
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1949 for her journalistic work

Katja Špur (20 November 1908 – 18 December 1991) was a Yugoslav journalist, writer, poet and translator. She wrote poetry, children's books and contributed articles to numerous journals, newspapers and children's magazines.[2] She won the Levstik Award for her journalistic work in 1949.[3] She graduated from the Facility of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana subsequently working as a journalist and educator as well as translator from Bulgarian into Slovene.[1]

Bibliography

For children and young adults
  • Zdaj pa šalo na stran (Now, That's Enough Kidding), article in children's magazine Kurirček, 1991
  • Babice nimajo vedno prav (Grandma's Are Not Always Right), article in children's magazine Kurirček, 1989
  • Pri materi (At Mother's), 1984
  • Mojca reši račko (Mojca Saves the Duck), 1984
  • Mojčine dogodivščine (My Adventures), 1984
  • Muce na obisku (Cats for A Visit), 1984
  • Potepuški poni (The Travelling Pony), 1984
  • Zvesti čuvaj (The Dedicated Guard), 1984
  • Sošolca (Schoolfriends), 1977
  • Prva knjiga o rastlinah (First Book on Plants), 1951
Other
  • Ljubezen je bolečina (Love is Pain), 1980
  • Vezi (Bonds), 1970
  • Slepa v pregnanstvu (Blind In Exile), 1963
  • Dva studenca (Two Streams), 1958
  • 50.000 hektarov (50,000 hectares), 1948

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 530.
  2. ↑ Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  3. ↑ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
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