Marija Rus

Marija Rus (2 August 1921 – April 2019) was a Slovenian Romance philologist, professor of French, translator, and poet. She was the first French teacher at Nova Gorica Grammar School. She contributed to the preparation of textbooks and curricula for the teaching of French. For her merits she received the French decoration Chevalier des Palmes académiques (Knight of the Order of Academic Palms). She also translated French poetry and wrote religious lyric poetry.