Jela Krečič

Jela Krečič Žižek (born 1979) is a Slovenian writer and journalist. She has published two books to date: None Like Her (Ni druge) which has been translated into English by Istros Books, and The Book of Others (Knjiga drugih) which was published in 2018 and was nominated for the Kresnik Award.[1]

Jela Krečič

Her father is the architectural historian Peter Krečič. Her husband is the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

Life and career

Jela Krečič graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana;[2] in 2009, under the mentorship of Mladen Dolar, she earned a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts.[3] She has been married to Slavoj Žižek since 2013.[4]

She was employed by the newspaper Delo; in December 2013 her exclusive interview with Julian Assange was published by the newspaper in Slovenian and English.[5] As of 2020 her personal opus, after 2002, includes over 500 bibliographic units.[6]

gollark: Well, at least I don't have a shop in wolfmall...
gollark: Just regular player ones.
gollark: In fairness, HydroNitrogen didn't use *moderator* powers to annoy me.
gollark: I'm sure that *some of it* is just altruism, but there *is* clearly profit-making, and I am kind of offended that he's decided that pointing that out makes me pure evil.
gollark: I can still talk here.

References
  1. "Jela Krečič". Ljubljana: Beletrina. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. Krečič, Jela (2002). Manifesti slovenske zgodovinske avantgarde : diplomsko delo [Manifests of the Slovenian historical avant-garde] (diploma thesis) (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. Krečič, Jela (2009). Filozofija, fantazma, film : doktorska disertacija [Philosophy, phantasm, film] (PhD) (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. "Tajna poroka Slavoja Žižka s 30 let mlajšo novinarko" [The Secret Wedding of Slavoj Žižek with a 30 Years Younger Journalist]. RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. Krečič, Jela (6 December 2013). "Exclusive interview: Julian Assange, a Spy for the People". DELO. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. "PhD Jela Krečič Žižek [54053] Bibliography". COBISS. 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
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