Maja Vidmar

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1961|06|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nova Gorica, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)

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| occupation = poet

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| notableworks = Prisotnost

| awards = {{Awd|Jenko Award|2005|for Prisotnost}}{{Awd|Prešeren Foundation Award|2006|for Prisotnost}}

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Maja Vidmar (born 28 June 1961) is a Slovene poet, author of several poetry collections.{{cite web |url=http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/biography.htm?writer_id=260 |title=Arc Publications site |language=Slovenian |work=Six Slovenian Poets |publisher=Arc Publications |accessdate=26 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314221856/http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/biography.htm?writer_id=260# |archive-date=2008-03-14 |url-status=dead }}Harold B. Segel The Columbia literary history of Eastern Europe since 1945, Columbia University Press, 2008, pg.241

For her collection of poems Prisotnost (Presence) she won the Jenko Award in 2005 [http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/jenkova-nagrada-maji-vidmar/141242 Jenkova nagrada Maji Vidmar (The Jenko Awards Goes to Maja Vidmar)], RTV Slovenija, 16 December 2005) and the Prešeren Foundation Award in 2006.[http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernovega_sklada_1962-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}