Janez Kajzer
Janez Kajzer is a Slovene writer, journalist, translator and editor.
Biography
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.He won the Levstik Award in 1960 for his first published work, the collection of short stories Mimo dnevnega načrta.
Published works
- Mimo dnevnega načrta, short stories, 1960
- Klub v črnem, novel, 1964
- Macesen, novel about Ivan Grohar, 1978
- Prava moška družba, short stories, 1979
- Štirje srčni možje, the story of the first ascent of Triglav, 1980
- S tramovi podprto mesto, cultural-historical stories, 1983
- Obljubljeni kraj, Portraits of Slovene emigrees to the US, 1984
- Samorastnik izpod Blegoša, 1998
- Sanjska hiša, novel, 2004
- Skrivno oko, short stories, 2005
- Perpetuum mobile, short stories, 2007
- V temnih, nemirnih nočeh, short stories, 2009
- Ovadba opolnoči, novel, 2011