# Vida Brest

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**Vida Brest** (true name **Majda Peterlin**) (21 July 1925 – 10 November 1985) was a Yugoslav [Slovene-language](/source/Slovene_language) poet, writer, journalist, and teacher, best known for her [juvenile fiction](/source/Young_adult_fiction), often based on her own experiences as a young [Partisan](/source/Slovene_Partisans) during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).[1]

Brest was born in [Šentrupert](/source/%C5%A0entrupert) in [Lower Carniola](/source/Lower_Carniola) in 1925.[2] At the age of 17 she joined the [resistance movement](/source/Resistance_movement) and after the end of the Second World War became a journalist and teacher. She later devoted herself to writing, her main inspiration being her own experiences during the war, but also wrote fairy tales and children's stories. From a very early age she also wrote poetry, with her first poems being published by the Partisan press during the war.[2] A selection of her best poems was published posthumously in 1995, selected and edited by [Ivan Minatti](/source/Ivan_Minatti).

She won the [Levstik Award](/source/Levstik_Award) in 1984 for her book of stories from the resistance entitled *Majhen človek na veliki poti* (A Small Man on a Big Road).[3]

## Published works

### Poetry

- *16 pesmi Vide Brest* (16 Poems of Vida Brest), 1944
- *Pesmi* (Poems), 1947
- *Mihčeve pesmi* (Little Miha's Poems), 1951
- *Teci, teci, soncu reci* (Run, Run, Tell the Sun), 1986
- *Tiho, tiho srce* (Silent, Silent Heart), (selected and edited by [Ivan Minatti](/source/Ivan_Minatti)), 1995

### Prose

- *Pravljica o mali Marjetici, zajčku, medvedu in zlati pomladi* (The Story of Little Margaret, the Bunny, the Teddy, and the Golden Spring), 1951,1958
- *Ptice in grm* (The Birds and the Bush), 1955, 1961
- *Orehovo leto* (The Year of the Walnut), 1955, 1972
- *Popotovanje v Tunizijo* (A Trip to Tunisia), 1967
- *Veliki čarovnik Ujtata* (The Great Wizard Ujtata), 1974
- *Prodajamo za gumbe* (We Sell Buttons), 1976
- *Majhen človek na veliki poti* (A Small Man on a Big Road), 1983
- *Mala Marjetica in gozdni mož* (Little Margaret and the Forest Man), 1985
- *Teci, teci, soncu reci* (Run, Run, Tell the Sun), (selected and edited by [Niko Grafenauer](/source/Niko_Grafenauer)), 1986

## References

1. [Šentrupert municipal site](http://www.sentrupert.si/Kultura/Rasto%C4%8Daknjiga/VidaBrestMajdaPeterlin/tabid/164/Default.aspx) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140202143301/http://www.sentrupert.si/Kultura/Rasto%C4%8Daknjiga/VidaBrestMajdaPeterlin/tabid/164/Default.aspx) 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine

1. Stanko Janež (1971). *Jugoslovenski književni leksikon* [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in sh). Živan Milisavac (ed.). [Novi Sad](/source/Novi_Sad) ([SAP Vojvodina](/source/Socialist_Autonomous_Province_of_Vojvodina), [SR Serbia](/source/Socialist_Republic_of_Serbia)): [Matica srpska](/source/Matica_srpska). p. 51.

1. ["The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade). Archived from [the original](http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade) on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

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