Kaja Teržan

Kaja Teržan
Born
Kaja Teržan

1986 (age 39–40)
Kranj, Slovenia
OccupationWriter
Genrepoetry, novelist
Notable workCircle, The Reckoning

Kaja Teržan was born in 1986 in Kranj, Slovenia, a Slovenian writer, poet, and novelist[1] and the 2019 recipient of the Jenko Award.[2]

Life and education

Kaja Teržan was born in 1986 in Kranj, Slovenia. She spent kindergarten and the first two years of primary school in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden,[3] after which she moved with her family to Škofja Loka, where she completed her primary education. At the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, she began studying art history and sociology, but left her studies early to focus on the practice of contemporary dance, performance. She works as a teacher.[4]

Writing

Delta, her first poetry collection was published began in 2015 the Centre for Slovenian Literature, in the Aleph collection. The same year, she presented it at the Mediterranea Festival in Milan.[5]

In 2018 her second collection Circle (Krog) was published. It was nominated for the Critics’ Sieve Award and received the Jenko Award for the best poetry collection of the past two years. Her collection Someday I'll Have Time was published in 2021.[6][7]

Poetry

Novel

  • The Reckoning (2015)

The Reckoning begins as a collage of fragments of memories and dreams. Through a dialogue with a fish—a carp—the inner and outer worlds, the real and the imagined places, intertwine in alternation, seeking to position the conflicts that arise in the transition from the inner to the outer world. The search for work, home, love, and meaning in the third part of the novel unfolds in an essayistic-poetic outpouring that leads to a confrontation in the final dialogue: a fundamental memory opens, from which a new branch of life may grow.

The raw social critique, questions of class and gender, make it clear that the surface of this hypocritical society is frozen. On the path of seeking truth and striving for self-recognition, the narrator finds true refuge in a journey through the forest and encounters with trees and animals.

See also

References

  1. ^ LUD Literatura
  2. ^ "Pesnica Kaja Teržan". Dogajanje in novice iz sveta in tujine - Pesnica Kaja Teržan - Si21 - prvi slovenski portal (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
  3. ^ "Kaja Teržan • www.ludliteratura.si" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  4. ^ Kaja Teržan
  5. ^ Beletrina, Založba. "Kaja Teržan". beletrina.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  6. ^ Kaja Teržan
  7. ^ Kaja Teržan
  8. ^ Katarina, Kogej (14 June 2016). "Kaja Teržan: Delta" (in Slovenian). Koridor. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  9. ^ Koprivnikar, Aljaž (29 March 2016). "Kaja Teržan: Delta" (in Slovenian). rtvslo.si. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  10. ^ Semolič, Peter (10 July 2019). "Telo in beseda telo (O poeziji Kaje Teržan)" [The Body and the Word "Body" (On the poetry of Kaja Teržan)] (in Slovenian). poiesis.si. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
  11. ^ Zupan Sosič, Alojzija (2021). "Spol in literarna interpretacija poezije žensk: Pesmi Barbare Korun in Kaje Teržan" [Gender and the Literary Interpretation of Women’s Poetry: The Poems of Barbara Korun and Kaja Teržan]. Jezik in slovstvo. 66 (4). doi:10.4312/jis.66.4.107-120.
  12. ^ Potisk, Martina (25 January 2022). "Ocenjujemo: Nekoč bom imela čas" [We evaluate: Nekoč bom imela čas] (in Slovenian). delo.si.
  13. ^ Jelen, Tonja (17 February 2022). "Kaja Teržan: Nekoč bom imela čas" (in Slovenian). rtvslo.si. Retrieved 27 December 2025.

Further reading

  • "Kaja Teržan". The Journal Days of Poetry and Wine, Open Letter to Europevol. 2025.
  • Kaja Teržan -"Obračun". MLADINSKA KNJIGA, . 2025.
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