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