Iztok Geister

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]

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]

• Levitve (2001)
• Pospala poželenja (2002)
• Mojster zloženih peruti (2003)

• Ljubljansko barje (1995)
• Nenavadni izleti : v slovensko naravo (2003)
• Sečoveljske soline (2004)
• Naravni zakladi Brda pri Kranju (2006)

• DOPPS (Slovenian Society for the Protection and Study of Birds (Slovene branch of BirdLife International) site

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