death_date death_place birth_place awards notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
17 january 2000 ljubljana , slovenia ljubljana , now in slovenia , kingdom of serbs , croats and slovenes prešeren kresnik award 1994 Čudežni feliks award 1988 for his prose and drama works Čarodej , obnebje metuljev , Čudežni feliks 17 february 1925 andrej hieng.jpg andrej hieng
 andrej hieng writer , playwright , theatre director
andrej hieng

andrej hieng -lrb- 17 february 1925 -- 17 january 2000 -rrb- was a slovene writer , playwright and theatre director .
hieng was born in ljubljana in 1925 .
he studied at the academy of performing arts in ljubljana between 1948 and 1952 and worked as a theatre director in kranj , celje and ljubljana .
as well as his plays , he is also known for his novels and short stories .
he received a number of awards including the prešeren foundation award in 1967 for his novel `` gozd in pečina '' , the grand prešeren award in 1988 for his literary and dramatic opus and the kresnik award for his novel '' Čudežni feliks '' in 1994 .
in 1995 he was made a member of the slovenian academy of sciences and arts .
he died in ljubljana in 2000 .
