Background
Brest was born in Šentrupert in Lower Carniola in 1925.
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. From a very early age she also wrote poetry, with her first poems being published by the Partisan press during the war. A selection of her best poems was published posthumously in 1995, selected and edited by Ivan Minatti.