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Taja Kramberger

タヤ・クラムベルガー

Taja Kramberger

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1970-09-11 (Ljubljana)
Nationality
Slovenian
Languages
Slovene, French, English, Italian, Spanish
Residence History
Koper (ages 4-11) → Ljubljana → Koper → France (since 2012)

Career

Occupations
poet, translator, essayist, historical anthropologist
Active Years
1997-2024
Affiliations
Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), Department of Anthropology, University of Primorska, TROPOS-Association, Collegium artium
Memberships
Slovene Writers' Association (distanced)
Influenced By
Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault
Nominations
Final circle nomination for the Book Fair Award for the First Literary Book (1997), Final circle nomination for the Jenko Award (1998)

Education

University of Ljubljana
History
Degree: undergraduate
Country: Slovenia
Undergraduate studies in history
University of Primorska
History/Historical Anthropology
Degree: PhD
Year of Graduation: 2009
Country: Slovenia
PhD thesis: Memory and Remembrance. Historical Anthropology of the Canonized Reception

Awards

Veronika Award
2007
Work: Everyday Conversations
Category: 最優秀詩集
Organization: Celje
Result: 受賞
State Fellowship
2005
Category: 最高芸術業績
Organization: Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Marcipan

1997 Poetry

Poetry book

EverydayMemory

Spregovori morje / The Sea Says

1999 Poetry

Poetry book

SeaNature

Historiografska divergenca

2007 Scholarly book 384 pages

Historiographical Divergence: Enlightenment and Historismus Paradigm

HistoriographyEpistemology

Bibliography

  • Marcipan (1997)
  • Spregovori morje (1999)
  • Gegenstroemung/Protitok (2001)
  • Žametni indigo (2004)

Translations by Author

  • Michele Obit's poetry Leta na oknu (2001)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
ReflexiveProvocativeIntellectual
Recurring Motifs
MemoryOblivionProvincialismSocial Exclusion

Legacy

Slovenian poet, translator, essayist, and historical anthropologist internationally acclaimed for works on memory, oblivion, social exclusion, etc. Lives in France.

Quotes

  • Nothing remains. But life is still here, and it speaks the guerrilla alphabet. (...) I am without home, I belong to the invisible community of the banished. Remove the ethnic adjective from my name.
    Source: Z roba klifa (2011)

Trivia

  • Photo from 2008 available.
  • Known for critique of Slovenian provincialism.