Jela Krečič Žižek (; born February 26, 1979) is a Slovenian writer and journalist.

Personal life and education

Jela Krečič born on 26 February 1979. After graduating from grammar school, she enrolled in the study of cultural studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

; in 2009, under the mentorship of

Mladen Dolar Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic. Biography Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French l ...

, she earned a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts. Her father is the architectural historian Peter Krečič. She has been married to

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek ( ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...

since 2013.

Career

She was employed by the newspaper ''

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''; in December 2013 her exclusive interview with

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was published by the newspaper in Slovenian and English. As of 2020 her personal opus, after 2002, includes over 500 bibliographic units. She has published two books to date: ''None Like Her'' (''Ni druge)'' which has been translated into English by

Istros Books Istros books is a London-based independent publisher of writers from South-East Europe and the Balkans, in English translation. It was set up in 2011 by Susan Curtis. Publications Notable publications include: *''Doppelgänger'' by Daša Drndić ...

, and ''The Book of Others'' (''Knjiga drugih'') which was published in 2018 and was nominated for the

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. ''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 Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 unti ...

. ''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.

References

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