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| birth_date   = {{birth date|1908|11|20|df=y}}<ref name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon">{{cite book |author= Stanko Janež |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=[[Matica srpska]] |language=sh |location= [[Novi Sad]] ([[Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina|SAP Vojvodina]], [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|SR Serbia]]) |page=530 }}</ref>
| birth_place  = [[Krapje, Slovenia|Gornje Krapje]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (now [[Slovenia]])<ref name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon"/>
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1991|12|18|1908|11|20|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Ljubljana]], Slovenia
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* Journalist
* writer
* poet
* translator }}
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| awards       = {{Awd|[[Levstik Award]]|1949|for her journalistic work}}
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'''Katja Špur ''' (20 November 1908 – 18 December 1991) was a Yugoslav journalist, writer, poet and translator. She wrote poetry, children's books and contributed articles to numerous journals, newspapers and children's magazines.<ref>[https://archive.today/20121203030502/http://nl.ijs.si/fedora/get/sbl:3591/VIEW/ Slovene Biographical Lexicon site]</ref> She won the [[Levstik Award]] for her journalistic work in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |title=The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site |access-date=4 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |archive-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She graduated from the Facility of Social Sciences at the [[University of Ljubljana]] subsequently working as a journalist and educator as well as translator from [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] into [[Slovene language|Slovene]].<ref name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon"/>
== Bibliography ==
; For children and young adults
* ''Zdaj pa šalo na stran'' (Now, That's Enough Kidding), article in children's magazine Kurirček, 1991
* ''Babice nimajo vedno prav'' (Grandma's Are Not Always Right), article in children's magazine Kurirček, 1989
* ''Pri materi'' (At Mother's), 1984
* ''Mojca reši račko'' (Mojca Saves the Duck), 1984
* ''Mojčine dogodivščine'' (My Adventures), 1984
* ''Muce na obisku'' (Cats for A Visit), 1984
* ''Potepuški poni'' (The Travelling Pony), 1984
* ''Zvesti čuvaj'' (The Dedicated Guard), 1984
* ''Sošolca'' (Schoolfriends), 1977
* ''Prva knjiga o rastlinah'' (First Book on Plants), 1951
; Other:
* ''Ljubezen je bolečina'' (Love is Pain), 1980
* ''Vezi'' (Bonds), 1970
* ''Slepa v pregnanstvu'' (Blind In Exile), 1963
* ''Dva studenca'' (Two Streams), 1958
* ''50.000 hektarov'' (50,000 hectares), 1948
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