Taja Kramberger

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Taja Kramberger : biography

11 September 1970 –

Beside in literature and historical anthropology she was/is engaged in civil actions and confrontations against clientelism and corruption in the scientific domain in the frames of Slovenia (in May 2000 she co-directed together with Sabina Mihelj a big public manifestation in Ljubljana against corrupted politics of the Ministry of Science and Technology; in 2004 she fought against illegal takeover of the institution ISH; in 2010 she again was a militant contra the total neoliberalization, venalization and degradation of the university as an autonomous institution and against the decomoposition of its fundamental scientific disciplines at the Faculty of Human Sciences Koper, University of Primorska; for the later see web:-site Save the University: ).

The same changes occurred also in the literary field in Slovenia. In 2004 when a writer and translator Iztok Osojnik as a director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival was ousted from the position of Vilenica’s director at the Slovenian Writers’ Union (SWU) , she was among the minority who supported him against mostly State maintained elite and regime supported writers and authors, meanwhile majority of writers remained quiet – also around two ardently debated subjects of growing nationalism and humiliation of women writers and translators in the frames of the SWU. (Polemics, which lasted the whole summer and autumn of 2004, was published in the review Apokalipsa, no. 84/85, 2004.) After that she distanced herself from the SWU’s network and writes literature by her own vocation and ethical standards.

Works

Poetry

  • Marcipan (Marzipan), 1997 (in Slovene)
  • Spregovori morje (The Sea Says), 1999 (in Slovene)
  • Gegenstroemung/Protitok (Contra-Courant), 2001 (in German, Edition Thanhaeuser, Ottensheim
  • Žametni indigo (Velure Indigo), 2004 (in Slovene)
  • Mobilizacije/Mobilizations/Mobilisations/Mobilitazioni in 2004/2005 (in Slovene, French, Italian and English)
  • Vsakdanji pogovori" (Everyday Conversations) in 2006 (in Slovene)
  • Opus quinque dierum in 2009 (poetic echos to the Deyfus Affair, in Slovene)
  • ♣stava ♣♣publike ♣♣♣♣♣ni♣♣ in 2010 (blackout poetry from a Constitution of RS and some other legal texts, in Slovene).

Literary studies, essays and criticism

  • "Aberaciji v slovenski poeziji: ženska in vednost : ali Nekaj tez o reakcionarni kulturni revoluciji, ki smo ji priča" ("Aberrations in Slovenian Poetry: Woman and Knowledge. Some theses on reactionary revolution to which we bear witness"), Literatura, July/August 2003, vol. 15, no. 145/146, 1-9.
  • "Pesmi, ki (si) jih deliš z dežjem" ("Poems, that you share with rain"), an introductory study to the poetry book of Gašper Malej, in: Gašper Malej, Otok, slutnje, poljub, (Zbirka Lambda, 39). Ljubljana, Škuc, 2004, 110-133.
  • "Kjer ni spoznavne realnosti, ne more biti zgodovine (žensk) in ne samozavedajoče se družbe" ("Where there’s no cognitive reality, there can be neither history [of women] nor selfconscious society"), Apokalipsa, 2005, no. 90/91/92, 103-119.
  • "Kjer pisava okuži pokrajino: spremna študija", ("Where the writing infects the landscape") an introductory study to the Slovenian translation of the selected poems of the Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz, in: Robeto Juarroz, Vertikalna poezija, (Knjižna zbirka Beletrina). Ljubljana, Študentska založba, 2006, 181-222.
  • "Strangoliert!", Apokalipsa, September–November 2007, no. 113/115, 1-23.
  • "Similis simili gaudet. Ali o kerkopski literarni kritiki v slovenskem literarnem polju" ("Similis simili gaudet. On the Kercopian Literary Criticism in the Slovenian Literary Field"), Poetikon, no. 19/20, 2008, 150-193.

Literary editorship

  • 2004: Co-editor with Gašper Malej of the collection Različni jeziki / Linguaggi di-versi, publication of the Poets’ and Translators’ Workshop Različni jeziki / Linguaggi di-versi, held in Ankaran, Slovenia, in 2002, project Linguagi di-versi has been going on with a some pauses from 1998 until 2009), Knjigarna Libris, Koper, 221 p.
  • 2004: Editor of the public documentation and texts in connection to the literary polemics in summer 2004, concerning many issues, including an Open letter to the Minister of Culture Mrs. Andreja Rihter written by the literary creators on 6 July 2004: Dosjeji I, Apokalipsa, 2004, no. 84/85, 139-182.
  • 2006: Editor and Translator of selected poems by the Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz, Vertikalna poezija, (Knjižna zbirka Beletrina). Ljubljana, Študentska založba, 2006. 224 p. ISBN 961-242-035-1.
  • 2008: Literary Editor of the portraits and presentations of a poet Joël Pourbaix, a short-story writer Hiromi Goto and a novelist Dionne Brand, Monitor ZSA, 2008, vol. 10, no. 3/4, 141-151, 153-159, 160-166.