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Janez Kajzer

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Janez Kajzer
Born(1938-01-21)21 January 1938
Vižmarje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupationwriter, journalist, translator, editor
Notable worksMimo dnevnega načrta, Macesen: Roman o Ivanu Groharju,
Notable awardsLevstik Award
1963 for Mimo dnevnega načrta

Janez Kajzer (born 21 January 1938) is a Slovene writer, journalist, translator and editor.[1]

Biography

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Kajzer was born in Vižmarje in Ljubljana in 1938. After finishing secondary school he found employment as a journalist at Mladina and Delo and later as an editor at the Borec and Prešernova Družba publishing houses. He has published a number of novels and collections of short stories.[2]

He won the Levstik Award in 1960 for his first published work, the collection of short stories Mimo dnevnega načrta (Beyond the Daily Plan).[3]

Published works

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  • Mimo dnevnega načrta (Beyond the Daily Plan), short stories, 1960
  • Klub v črnem (The Club in Black), novel, 1964
  • Macesen (The Larch), novel about Ivan Grohar, 1978
  • Prava moška družba (Real Male Company), short stories, 1979
  • Štirje srčni možje (Four Heary Men), the story of the first ascent of Triglav, 1980
  • S tramovi podprto mesto (A Town Held Up By Beams), cultural-historical stories, 1983
  • Obljubljeni kraj (The Promised Land), Portraits of Slovene emigrees to the US, 1984
  • Samorastnik izpod Blegoša (The Self-Made Mad from Under Mount Blegoš), 1998
  • Sanjska hiša (Dream House), novel, 2004
  • Skrivno oko (The Hidden Eye), short stories, 2005
  • Perpetuum mobile (Perpetuum mobile), short stories, 2007
  • V temnih, nemirnih nočeh (In Dark Restless Nights), short stories, 2009
  • Ovadba opolnoči (Midnight Charge), novel, 2011

References

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  1. ^ "Naša knjižnica, bulletin on the Šentjur Public Library site" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  2. ^ Sodobnost Yr.2005, pg.955
  3. ^ "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2012.