Miroslav Košuta

{{Short description|Slovenian poet, playwright and translator}}

File:Anton Nanut and Miroslav Košuta.jpg and Miroslav Košuta at the Prešeren Award reception in 2011]]

Miroslav Košuta (born 11 March 1936) is a Slovene poet, playwright and translator from Križ by Trieste, a younger representative of Intimism and Socialist Realism.{{cite news |url=http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/494/detail.html |title=Miroslav Košuta |work=The Portal of Slovene Authors |publisher=Slovene Writers' Association |accessdate=7 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825000359/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/pisatelji/494/detail.html |archivedate=25 August 2010 }} On 7 February 2011, he received the Prešeren Award, the highest cultural award in Slovenia, for his poetry and contributions to the preservation of the Slovene in Italy.{{cite news |url=http://www.zurnal24.si/slovenija/nagrada-nanutu-in-kosuti-201375/clanek |title=Nagrada Nanutu in Košuti |language=Slovenian |trans-title=The Award Goes to Nanut and Košuta |publisher=Zurnal24 |accessdate=7 February 2011}}