Iztok Geister

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Iztok Geister
Born (1945-08-20) 20 August 1945 (age 77)
Laško, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • essayist
  • lawyer
  • ornithologist
Notable worksLevitve, Pospala poželenja
Notable awards Rožanc 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]

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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]

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