PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES ONLY

A. LITERATURE

POETRY
In Slovenian (1995-2014)

BOOKS
1. Marcipan [Marzipan], 1997
2. Spregovori morje [The Sea Says], 1999
3. Protitok / Gegenströmung  [Counter-Current], 2001
4. Žametni indigo [Velvet Indigo], 2004
5. Mobilizacije / Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni / Mobilizations, 2004 and 2011
6. Vsakdanji pogovori [Everyday Talks], 2006
7. Opus quinque dierum, 2009
8. *stava **publike *****ni** [blackout poetry on the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia and some other legal acts, the title is untranslatable, literally: A bet - there's no public], 2010
9. Z roba klifa [From the Edge of a Cliff], 2011*
10. V tvojem objemu je prostor zame [In Your Embrace, There's a Place for Me], 2014*

* Ad peripeteias of exile: After exile and my definitive relocation to France (2012-2016), final two books of my poetry (where you can find, undoubtedly, most of my best poems in form of poetic criticism of the provincial kind of a slide into fascism) were omitted from the visible web-sites - such as English Wikipedia and some others.
1997: Marcipan 
[Marzipan]
ISBN 86-11-14944-0
Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)

Shortlisted (finalist selection) for the First Literary Book Award of the Slovene Book Fair 1997


Shortlisted (finalist selection)
for the Jenko Prize 1998
1999: Spregovori morje 
[The Sea Says]
​ISBN 86-11-15548-3
Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)
 
Shortlisted (final selection) for the Jenko Award 1999
2001: Protitok / Gegenströmung
[Contra-Current]
​ISBN 978-3-900986-51-3
Handpressendruck
Edition Thanhäuser, Ottensheim
(Bilingual: Slovene & German, translation into German by Maja Haderlap)

Outcome of the Kultur Kontakt Fellowship in Austria.
Bibliographic edition with original graphics of Christian Thanhäuser
2004: Žametni indigo
[Velvet Indigo]
ISBN: 961-6098-62-4
LUD Literatura, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)
2004: Mobilizacije / Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni / Mobilizations

1ST EDITION (2004,
​red cover page):
ISBN 961-91533-0-8
KUD Tropos, Ljubljana
(In four languages: Slovene, French, Italian, English, translations done by Drago Braco Rotar, David Jauzion-Graverolles, Anne Talvaz, Ana Jelnikar and Michelle Obit)
SOLD OUT!
​To be republished in 2026 as an ebook.
2011: Mobilizacije / Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni / Mobilizations

2ND EDITION (2011, green cover page); 
ISBN 978-961-93099-1-9
KUD Zrakogled, Koper
(in four languages: Slovene, French, Italian, English)
 2006: Vsakdanji pogovori 
[Everyday talks]
​ISBN 961-6036-78-5
CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)
​
Veronika award in 2007
2009: Opus quinque dierum
​ISBN: 978-961-6036-96-2
CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)


Poetic narration of various aspects of the Dreyfus Affair - unique in the world!

 2010: -stava --publike -----ni--: poetični priročnik za guljenje in kritično refleksijo ustave in nekaterih drugih pravnih aktov RS
 ISBN 978-961-93031-4-6
​ADDENDA, Koper
(in Slovene)
[The title comes from erasure of some letters from "Ustava Republike Slovenije [Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia]"; untranslatable, literally it means : 
--a-bet-there's-no-public: a poetic handbook for studying and critically reflecting on the constitution and certain other legal acts
​of the Republic of Slovenia 

Blackout Poetry on the Constitution of Republic of Slovenia
2011: Z roba klifa *
[From the Edge of a Cliff]
​ISBN: 978-961-6789-20-2
CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)

Shortlisted (final selection) for the Veronika Award 1999
​
​* Ad peripeteias of exile: 

After she executed a university purge (in 2010) that undercut my university position Mrs. Vesna Mikolič, at that time the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in Koper, tried to sue my publisher (CSK, Aleph in Ljubljana) in order to have the poetry book  Z roba klifa removed from circulation. That was done under the pretext that "the wrong and unproper words", such as "purge" - were used in it and that I "misrepresented events at the university in Koper". This political strategy to further degrade me can be ascribed to the general covering up of the facts after the brutal university purge in 2010. The event and its many orchestrated manoeuvres has had social effects that continue unhindered till today.

​Luckily for me and for my publisher (who actually did not back me up, but was angry at me!), Mikolič was not able to proceed with her attack "legally" as the new Rector (Dragan Marušič) of the university rapidly stopped her lynching and detraction spree with a decisive official order (pointing to the Dean's falsified authorisation of the ex-Rector) of the University of Primorska. Whilst the old Rector, M. Rado Bohinc (member of the Yugoslav political nomenclature and an ex-minister of the Interior, and as such by his function leader of the political police - udba)  - created the prosperous frames for the university purge and backed it up with his vast extreme leftist (neostalinist) political and media network. Epilogue à la slovène (crooks elevated, honest people disqualified): Vesna Mikolič was invited to became a member of the Slovene PEN Club!

See media article about this (in Slovene): 
Je Mikoličevo izrinil rob klifa?
[Did the edge of the cliff push Mikolič off?]
Primorske novice, 28 March 2012
(Some further links about conflicts
at the faculty and university in Koper in 2012 - in Slovene)

​
2014: V tvojem objemu je prostor zame
[In Your Embrace, There's a Place for Me]

​ISBN: 978-961-6789-42-4
CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana
(in Slovene)
5 CHOSEN (SLOVENIAN) ANTHOLOGIES
1. Poems in Mi se vrnemo zvečer. Antologija mlade slovenske poezije 1990-2003 [We'll be back in the evening. Anthology of Young Slovenian Poetry 1990-2003] (ed. Matevž Kos), 2004
2. Poems in Antologija slovenskih pesnic [Anthology of Slovenian Women Poets] (3 vols, ed. Irena Novak Popov), 2007
3. Poems in V tebi se razraščam. Antologija slovenske erotične poezije [I am blossoming within you. Anthology of Slovenian erotic poetry] (ed. Alojzija Zupan Sosič), 2008
4. Poems in Antologija sodobne slovenske literature [Anthology of Contemporary Slovenian Literature] (ed. Alojzija Zupan Sosič et al.), 2010
5. Poems and interview in Pesmi Parnasa : Veronikina antologija (žlahten izbor Veronikinih nagrajencev ob 15. letnici nagrade) [Parnassus Songs: Veronika's Anthology: (A fine selection of Veronika's award winners on the 15th anniversary of the award)], 2011
In French (from 2016 on)

BOOKS AND CHOSEN ANTHOLOGIES
1. Poem in anthology Éloge de défense de la langue française : 137 poètes planétaires-10 lettres ouvertes-5 peintres (ed. Pablo Poblète, France, and Claudine Bertrand, Québec, Canada), 2016
2. Awarded poems in anthology Prix de poésie féminine Simone Landry : année 2018. Femmes – Poésie – Liberté, 2018
3. Poem in anthology / Tribute to JINA-BENDAN. Femme-Vie-Liberté : anthologie de poésie en soutien aux femmes du Kurdistan at d’Iran (eds. Nazand Begikhani & Nicole Barrière), 2023
4. Poem in anthology L'Ukraine dans nos coeurs : 112 poetes francophones, 14 peintres pour une paix universelle 2022-2023 (ed. Pablo Poblète), 2023
5. Poetry book On n'est jamais loin de la poésie, 2024
6. Poetry book Argentaria, to be printed in early 2026
POETRY IN TRANSLATION
BOOKS ​
1. German: Protitok / Gegenströmung, 2001
2. French, Italian, English: Mobilizacije / Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni / Mobilizations, 2004 and 2011
3. Croatian, Slovene, Italian: Mobilizacije / Mobilizacije / Mobilitazioni, 2008
4. Hungarian: Ezerny Csend, 2008
5. French: Le poème est une main offerte, 2011
6. Spanish (Castillano): No palabras, 2013
2008: Mobilizacije / Mobilizacije / Mobilitazioni
ISBN 978-953-7289-31-7
Naklada Lara, Zagreb
(tr. by Ksenija Premur)
(in Croatian)
2008: Ezernyi Csend * 
ISBN 978-963-9893-07-8
Pro Pannónia Könyvek, Pécs
(tr. by Lukács Zsolt) 
(in Hungarian)

(* This book was made out of the enthusiastic initiative of the translator, who contacted me, but I have no idea if he got right any of my verses. I don't understand Hungarian and I have odd and mixed feelings about the book. It was never promoted properly and apart of the translator, I never met any of the people involved in the publishing of the book.)
2011: Le poème est une main offerte *
ISBN 978-961-93031-7-7
Addenda, Koper
(tr. by Drago Braco Rotar)
(in French)

(* At the time when my husband and I were about to go into exile, I had almost no French translations of my poems, so the selection of them was made during a time of stress and daily battles in the media, in court, and in the fields of activity (literature, translation, editing, social rights). In the hustle and bustle and social pressure of the last months before leaving for Paris, we accidentally had an uncorrected version of the translations printed (1st draft), which is why the book is virtually unusable. There was no time for a new print run. Thus, the publication is more a document of the times than a book of poetry. For later French publications, we naturally retranslated all the poems in peace in Paris.)
2013: No palabras
ISBN 978-950-9704-63-3
Gog y Magog ​Ediciónes, Buenos Aires
(tr. by Barbara Pregelj)
(in Spanish)
​
Reading in Rosario Poetry Festival, 2013
6 CHOSEN ANTHOLOGIES IN FINNISH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH
1. Poems "Queste piccolezze : Oh Koper, Šalara, salamandre, orssacchiotti e lupinice" & "Marzapane" in Nuova poesia slovena (ed. Michele Obit, Italy), 1998
2. Poem "Mobilisations" in A fine line: new poetry from Eastern & Central Europe (foreword by Milan Kundera, UK), 2004
3. Poems in Poesía eslovena contemporánea: antología (tr. Marjeta Drobnič, Argentina), 2006
4. Poems in Treze Poetas Eslovenos. Antologia Inacabada (tr. Mateja Rozman, Portugal), 2008
5. Poems in Marsipaania. Slovenialaista nykyrunoutta (ed. and tr. Kari Klemela, Finnland), 2009 
6. Poem "Every Dead-One Has a Name" (tr. Špela Drnovšek-Zorko) in anthology World Poetry Record. International voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus, 2012 

MULTILINGUAL (GERMAN, SLOVENE, ITALIAN) PROJECT ANTHOLOGY 
Poems in anthology Atlas der besonderen Orte - Atlas posebnih krajev - Atlante dei luoghi particolari, 2011
The World Record is an international Poetry Parnassus anthology of work by the representative poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics. Each poet in it features with one poem. Eds. Neil Astley and Anna Selby.

"With this book you can discover the world through its keenest observers, political activists, and most articulate wordsmiths. The World Record marks the first time so many living poets from so many countries have been gathered together in
one anthology - and 2012 is the first time so many poets
have been gathered in one place."

(From the site "Good Reads")
KID'S LITERATURE
2011: Refugij Tapu /
Rifugio Tapu 

(Koderjana V, tr. Michele Obit), KD Ivan Trinko, Cividale / Čedad 
(in Slovene and Italian)

Book for kids (years 7-9)
DRAMA (STAGE PLAY)
1. Če utišate pevca/pevko [If the Singer is Silenced], 2011
TRANSLATIONS OF OTHER WRITERS' AND POETS' WORKS INTO SLOVENE LANGUAGE (by T. K.)
1. Michele Obit, Leta na oknu, 2001
2. Gao Xingjian (with Drago Braco Rotar), Ribiška palica za starega očeta, 2001
3. Neringa Abrutyte, Izpoved, 2004
4. Lucy Coats, 100 grških mitov za otroke, 2004 (republished in 2009)
5. Roberto Juarroz, Vertikalna poezija, 2006
6. Claribel Alegría, Več kakor zloščen kamen, 2013
7. *Minoli Salgado, Malo prahu na očeh, 2017

* Ad peripeteias of exile: My translation of this book was stolen from me after the last correctures I made together with the swindling woman proofreader - A. J. O. After the last full point in the translation, the latter - over night and with the complicity of KUD Police Dubove editor - with whom I've already had terrible experience with my translation of Michelle Perrot (2015-2016), see above - became the official translator and recieved my royalties (!). If this is another name for a base thief, let it be. I should have known it better: after all, it was a rather typical stalinist-titoist intrigue (in fact, probably kardeljian after Edvard Kardelj, a famous Tito's right hand, theorist of self-managing socialism and a scheming master, otherwise educated in Moscow before Second World War and an agent of Comintern between 1936 and 1941), done, for example, to Serbian-Jewish writer Danilo Kiš (slightly different: he was accused of plagiat, but the social consequences of degradation are the same) and some other exiles in ex-Yugoslavia to punish and disqualify them internationally. All because they didn't want to collaborate in abject political complicity and omertà.

What are/were the stakes in such kind of spectacle?

Political toadies gain at least three jokers at the same time : first, degradation of the exile (so nobody would listen to what he/she has to say), second, looted symbolic capital is then avalable for the regime "disidents" or its protegé(e)s (who are otherwise uncapable of such work), and, third,  in a world of inverted social and legal values the theft can be a handy tool for climbing the social ladder faster (as you enter the right complicity)! Acquirers (of other's people's work) - "properly" confirmed as the corrector, editor and a adjutant from the translators' association who (in my case) guaranteed that my translation is bad (!) - can then integrate the author's national or international network and further discredit the targeted victim. Sadly, the original author of a book - for whatever reasons (blindness, ambition, bad judging or else) - often plays with the officially confirmed. 

I should have seen it coming ... but I haven't. I've surely learned a lesson in a hard way: an exile should immediately and absolutely cut off all the projects and relations with his/her ex-compatriots, no matter how good intentioned they may seem. After all, why should a person ultimately be available to (structural) homeland swindlers when there are so many honest and decent people in the world?

B. HISTORY, HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIAL SCIENCES

MONOGRAPHS
1. Historiografska divergenca. Razsvetljenska in historistična paradigma: o odprti in zaprti epistemični strukturi in njunih elaboracijah, 2007, 384 p.
2. Misliti družbo, ki (se) sama ne misli, 2010 (together with Drago Rotar), 244 p.
3. Nevidne evidence : misliti idola tribus, 2011 (together with Drago Rotar), 383 p.
4. Zgodovinsko-antropološki oris oblikovanja univerzitetnih habitusov, 2009, 133 p.
2007: Historiografska divergenca. 
Razsvetljenska in historistična paradigma: o odprti in zaprti epistemični strukturi in njunih elaboracijah 
[Historiographic Divergence: The Enlightenment and Historist Paradigms. On Open and Closed Epistemic Structures and Their Elaborations]

ISBN 978-961-6033-93-0
UP ZRS, Založba Annales, Koper
(in Slovene, summaries in Ebnglish and Italian, see below), 375 p., illustr.
 
Proclaimed to be an "exceptional scientific achievement" by the Slovenian Research Agency
(Though almost a total silence prevailed around the book: not even one single analytic review was published about it and very rare individuals cite it in Slovenia)

Summary of the Book in English

Riassunto in Italiano
2010: Misliti družbo, ki (se) sama ne misli
​(co-authorship with Drago Rotar). 
[To Think Society That Does Not Think (By) Itself]

ISBN 978-961-6768-25-2
Založba Sophia, Ljubljana
(in Slovene), 244 p.

Review
​(in English by Ana Tominc)
2011: Nevidne evidence. Misliti idola tribus 
(co-authorship with Drago Rotar). 
​[Invisible Evidences. Thinking idola tribus]

ISBN 978-961-6768-36-8
Založba Sophia, Ljubljana
(in Slovene), 383 p.
 
Again proclaimed to be an "exceptional scientific achievement" by the Slovenian Research Agency 
(Already in the context after the university purge, when the public and media representations of the authors turned viscerally negative). Much the same fate hit the book as it happened to Historiografska divergenca: an exuberant silence and controversial rumors (but there were at least one or two superficial and slightly negative newspaper reviews).
2009: Zgodovinsko-antropološki oris oblikovanja univerzitetnih habitusov

Pedagoški inštitut, Ljubljana
​133 p.
(in Slovene)
TRANSLATIONS OF OTHER SOCIAL SCIENTISTS INTO SLOVENE LANGUAGE (by T. K.)

BOOKS AND COLLECTIONS OF TEXTS ONLY (for other translations and publications see Bibliography section)
1. Pierre Bourdieu & Loic Wacquant, Načela za refleksivno družbeno znanost in kritično preučevanje simbolnih dominacij, 2006 (together with some other translators), 262 p.
2. Translation of some texts in Temeljna besedila za zgodovinsko in socialno antropologijo 1 (ed. in chief Taja Kramberger, guest ed. Ana Tominc) in Monitor ZSA , vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2010, 425 p. 
3. Translation of some texts in Temeljna besedila za zgodovinsko in socialno antropologijo 2 (ed. in chief Taja Kramberger, guest ed. Ana Tominc) in Monitor ZSA , vol. 12, no. 3-4, 2010, 335 p. 
4. Michelle Perrot, Ženske ali molčanja zgodovine, 2016, 553 p.
2006: Pierre Bourdieu & Loic Wacquant, Načela za refleksivno družbeno znanost in kritično preučevanje simbolnih dominacij 
(eds. & tr. by Taja Kramberger & Drago Rotar, other translators too)

ISBN 978-961-6033-93-0
UP ZRS, Založba Annales, Koper
(in Slovene), 262 pp.
 
Introduction
(by Taja Kramberger
​& Drago Rotar)
(in Slovene)
​

​2010: Temeljna besedila za zgodovinsko in socialno antropologijo 1 (ed. in chief Taja Kramberger, guest ed. Ana Tominc) in Monitor ZSA , vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2010, 425 p., and 3-4, 335 p.
(eds. & tr. by Taja Kramberger & Drago Rotar, guest ed. Ana Tominc, other translators too) *

ISSN: 1854-0376
UP ZRS, Založba Annales, Koper
(in Slovene) 
​
* Unaware that our faculty colleagues were preparing a purge that would take away our livelihood and ultimately lead to our exile, in 2010 Taja K. and Braco R. (together with guest editor Ana Tominc) prepared two extensive textbooks for our students of historical anthropology, which were intended to serve for the next decade.
Darko Darovec (one of the perpetrators of the purge) and his associates, as responsible for the publisher (ZRS Annales), should have paid for the printing of both issues, as we had received a subsidy. Payment was also guaranteed by Vlasta Vičič from the State Book Agency, where we received funding. It was a double lie; they did not pay the printing costs, and we printed both issues at our own expense. Today, we are satisfied; the matter has been handled fairly on our part and is now closed. The product is palpable and it shows what we were researching at the time and what topics we were exploring with students.
2016: Michelle Perrot, Ženske ali molčanja zgodovine *
​
ISBN 978-961-93732-6-2
KUD Police Dubove
(in Slovene)
​
* Ad peripeteias of exile: Huge problems with proofreading this book. The publisher was not up to the task, so the main editor T. J. gave the book to three proofreaders, each of whom imposed their own solutions, sometimes all right, but many times totally incompetent (none of them were university staff, mostly narrow literary translators with very weak knowledge of terminology or epistemology). I had to fight, so to say,  for every word written, as did Braco as the expert editor and a routine translatior of more than 10.000 pages. At that point, we said to ourselves: never again will we entrust a powerful book to a weak publisher (and a crooked person), even though I had another translation with this very publisher in the making in that time. It was annoying.
And what happened with the other book was exactly what we should have expected. The following year, perhaps in retaliation for the difficulties with this book, as we did not give in to the proofreaders' trivialization, the head of KUD PD appropriated my completely finished and edited literary translation by M. Salgado, A Little Dust in the Eyes.
Of course, part of the blame lies
​with me, with us.

When we decided to go into exile, Braco and I should have broken off all contact with our former compatriots – and not given the opportunists a chance to beat us up in their accommodation to the regime and turn this knavish trick into a career opportunity.