Vida Brest
 Vida Brest (true name Majda Peterlin) (21 July 1925 – 10 November 1985) was a YugoslavSlovene language poet writer journalist and teacher best known for her juvenile fiction often based on her own experiences as a young woman partisan during the Second World War.Brest was born in Šentrupert in Lower Carniola in 1925. At the age of 17 she joined the resistance movement and after the end of the Second World War became a journalist and teacher.