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| name                = Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards
| localname           = Borštnikov prstan in Borštnikove nagrade
| logo               = Borstnik Theatre Festival (logo).svg
| street address      = Slovenska 27
| town                = SI-2000 Maribor
| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 250 6100
| fax                 = 386 (0) 2 250 6228
| email               = borstnikovo@sng-mb.si
| website             = http://www.borstnikovo.si
| organised by        = Maribor Theatre Festival
| managed by          = Slovene National Theatre Maribor
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Alja Predan
| role                = Festival Director
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| telephone           = 386 (0) 51 675 251
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| name                = Aleš Novak
| role                = President of the Maribor Theatre Festival Council
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| name                = Daša Šprinčnik
| role                = Producer and Public Relations
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| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 250 6148, 386 (0) 31 342 178 
}}{{Contact
| name                = Špela Lešnik
| role                = International Programme Producer
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| telephone           = 386 (0) 41 743 485 
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The [[Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards]] are bestowed at the central festival of Slovene theatre, the [[Maribor Theatre Festival]], held every year in Maribor. Every year the Borštnik Ring Award, the highest award for lifetime achievement in Slovene theatre, is also presented by a separate expert jury to an actor or actress who has left a major legacy to the Slovene stage. 
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The Borštnik Awards for achievement in repertory and independent theatres include the Grand Prix for best performance, Borštnik Award for directing, awards for actors and young actors, Borštnik Award for dramaturgy or artistic direction, and awards for stage design, costume design, music, make-up design and/or sound design, the latter ones varying from year to year. The [[Dominik Smole Award]] is awarded for best translation or adaptation of a dramatic text. The jury bestows also a Special Borštnik Jury Award, while the [[Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia]] gives award for the best production of the past season.

==Recent Borštnik Awards==

In 2009 the award for best performance went to [[Ivica Buljan]]'s staging of Heiner Müller's ''Macbeth After Shakespeare'', co-produced by [[Mini Theatre]], [[Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]], Novo kazalište Zagreb and ZeKaEm, Croatia. The award for best direction was given to [[Jernej Lorenci]] for his staging of ''Oresteia'', produced by [[Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama]]. 

The new translation of Aeschylus's play by [[Marko Marinčič]] was awarded with the [[Dominik Smole Award]] for best translation.

The Grand Prix for the Best Performance in 2014 went to Rudi Šeligo ''The Wedding'', directed by [[Jernej Lorenci]] and performed by the [[Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana]], a Special Borštnik Jury Award went to ''Modern Nô Plays'' directed by [[Mateja Koležnik]] (Borštnik Award for Directing), and performed by the [[Slovene Permanent Theatre, Trieste]].


==See also==
* [[Maribor Theatre Festival]]
* [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]]

==External links==
* [http://www.borstnikovo.si/en/ Maribor Theatre Festival website] 
* [https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_prejemnikov_Borštnikovega_prstana A list of Borštnik Ring award winners on Wikipedia] (in Slovenian)

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