Background
Forstnerič was born in Pobrežje near Ptuj in 1933.
Forstnerič was born in Pobrežje near Ptuj in 1933.
He trained as a teacher and taught for a number of years before becoming a journalist in 1958. He worked for the newspapers Večer and Delo and also obtained a degree in sociology from the University of Ljubljana in 1979. He is best known for his poetry that he started publishing in the early 1960s.