Saša Vegri

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Saša Vegri, born Albina Vodopivec (née Doberšek) on 12 February 1934 in Belgrade, was a Slovene poet and writer for children and young readers. She was associated with the Intimism movement. Vegri published her first poems in journals in the mid-1950s and also wrote many books for children and young adults. Her best-known work is Mama pravi, da v očkovi glavi (Mum Said That in Dad’s Head), for which she won the Levstik Award in 1979. Her family moved to Sveti Štefan in 1941, and she studied in Celje and Ljubljana. She worked as a freelance writer and a librarian. Vegri died on 29 August 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.