ABOUT
Taja Kramberger (1970) is a writer, poet, editor and translator, and an independent researcher in modern history and historical anthropology (various chapters and topics from the Central-European history between 18th and 20th Centuries).
Before exile (from Slovenia to France) in late 2012 − after a sudden illicit university purge of critical intellectuals in 2010 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University in Littoral in Koper (15 km from Trieste, on the Slovene side), followed by further enhanced social pressures on her and her husband after the purge, she was a notable Slovene university teacher and researcher, and an internationally renowned poet, writer, editor and translator (some 20 books, and around 200 other literary publications). She was a member of the SWU−Slovene Writers’ Union (1996-2014, she stepped out of the SWU in protest against corrupted and illicit policy of its power structure, involved in her degradation and silent during the purge of personnel at the Koper's university, in December 2014, but her open letter was denied by all the Slovene media and suppressed even by the President of the SWU, Mr. Ivo Svetina), one of the four members of the Executive Council of the Academic Trade Union at the University of Littoral, coordinator of the promotion and postgraduate studies of the Anthropological Department, and a President of cultural events (Collegium artium 2007-2009) at the Faculty of Humanities in Koper. After the purge and after a decade of public combats for social justice and against the corruption and clientelism (so in litterature and so in social sciences and humanities), in 2012 the Slovene PEN Club refuted her candidature while some of the executors of the university purge and their allies were welcomed to the Slovene PEN and quickly confirmed and promoted. In the domain of literature she has published some 20 books; among them 10 books of her own poetry, 7 books of translation of other authors (prose and poetry), a book for kids and a theater play. She has been invited to many international literary meetings and festivals around the world, and her poems are included in a few dozen anthologies. She also conducted, organized or coordinated more than 150 cultural and literary events, national and international, in her “native country”. In the domain of human and social sciences, she has published four books and many dozen articles, translated more than a thousand pages of basic texts in SSH (into Slovenian), and made public around 200 other shorter texts. For ten years, she was an Editor-in-Chief of a historical-anthropological journal Monitor ZSA (38 numbers, 2001-2010). She was actively engaged in many struggles for social justice in Slovenia. In 2000, she led a big public manifestation with international petition against corruption in the distribution of public funds in Slovene social sciences and humanities. |