Jela Krečič
Jela Krečič | |
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 Krečič in 2005 | |
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana (PhD) |
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| Father | Peter Krečič |
Jela Krečič Žižek (née Krečič; born 1979) is a Slovenian writer and journalist.
Early and personal life
[edit]Her father is the architectural historian Peter Krečič.
She has been married to Slavoj Žižek since 2013.[1]
Education
[edit]Jela Krečič graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana;[2] in 2009, under the mentorship of Mladen Dolar, she earned a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts.[3]
Career
[edit]She was employed by the newspaper Delo; in December 2013 her exclusive interview with Julian Assange was published by the newspaper in Slovenian and English.[4] As of 2020 her personal opus, after 2002, includes over 500 bibliographic units.[5]
She has published two books to date: None Like Her (Ni druge) which has been translated into English by Istros Books, and The Book of Others (Knjiga drugih) which was published in 2018 and was nominated for the Kresnik Award.[6] None Like Her is a novel about a Slovenian man's romantic problems against a backdrop of nostalgia for the era of Josip Broz Tito.[7] The Book of Others tells a story around a book that is passed from one character to another and affects their lives despite none of them having read it.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tajna poroka Slavoja Žižka s 30 let mlajšo novinarko" [The Secret Wedding of Slavoj Žižek with a 30 Years Younger Journalist]. RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Krečič, Jela (2002). Manifesti slovenske zgodovinske avantgarde : diplomsko delo [Manifests of the Slovenian historical avant-garde] (diploma thesis) (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Krečič, Jela (2009). Filozofija, fantazma, film : doktorska disertacija [Philosophy, phantasm, film] (PhD) (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Krečič, Jela (6 December 2013). "Exclusive interview: Julian Assange, a Spy for the People". DELO. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "PhD Jela Krečič Žižek [54053] Bibliography". COBISS. 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Jela Krečič". Ljubljana: Beletrina. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "None Like Her - Jela Krečič". www.complete-review.com. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ "Jela Krečič: The Book of Others • Beletrina". beletrina.com. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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