death_place death_date birth_place awards nationality field birth_date article_title name occupation
maribor , slovenia 03 july 2004 maribor , slovenia levstik award 1969 for po domovih naših pisateljev slovenian slavic studies , literary criticism and reading culture 23 june 1928 stanko kotnik
 stanko kotnik professor and editor
stanko kotnik

stanko kotnik -lrb- 23 june 1928 -- 3 july 2004 -rrb- was a slovene professor of slavic studies who taught methods of teaching slovene language and literature at the university of maribor .
together with leopold suhodolčan he was one of the conceptors of the `` reading badge of slovenia '' competition that still runs today as a motivation for primary school children in reading and literacy .
kotnik was born in maribor in 1928 .
he studied slavic languages and literature at the university of ljubljana and graduated in 1954 .
he worked as a teacher in prevalje in slovenian carinthia and from 1968 to his retirement in 1988 lectured at the university of maribor .
he died in maribor in 2004 .
he won the levstik award in 1969 for his book `` po domovih naših pisateljev '' -lrb- in the homes of our writers -rrb- .
