| Recipient | Occupation | Rationale |
| Blaž Arnič | composer | for the composition The Woods are Singing |
| Matej Bor | poet, playwright, translator, journalist | for the play False Flaggers |
| Igo Gruden | poet, translator | for the collections Into Exile and The Poet's Heart |
| Božidar Jakac | painter, graphic artist, photographer, filmmaker | for the collection of drawings titled In the Tracks of the 4th and the 5th Offensive |
| Boris Kalin | sculptor | for the sculpture Fifteen-Year-Old Girl |
| Gojmir Anton Kos | painter, photographer | for the oil painting Girl with an Accordion |
| Anton Melik | geographer | for the work The Ljubljana Pile-Dweller's Lake and Its Heritage |
| Ivan Potrč | writer, playwright | for the drama The Krefl Farm |
| Tone Seliškar | writer, poet, journalist, teacher | for the story Comrades |
| Lucijan Marija Škerjanc | composer, conductor, pedagogue, pianist | for the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra |
| Vitomil Zupan | writer, poet, playwright, essayist | for the drama Birth in a Storm |