Biography
Born in Ljubljana, but lived in her childhood (between age 4 and 11) at the seaside – in the bilingual town of Koper-Capodistria near Trieste. She has finished there 4 years of primary school (Pinko Tomažič), and then moved with a family to Ljubljana, where she has finished primary and secondary school Gimnazija Bežigrad. She obtained BA from history at the University of Ljubljana (1997), and took the position of a postgraduate young researcher at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (abr. ISH) in Ljubljana. After the transition changes, when lucrative and socially applicable science was placed in the first plan at the ISH, she has left the institution (2004), and moved to Koper-Capodistria, where a new University of Primorska has started its route. She still lives and works in Koper. She is married to Drago Braco Rotar, Slovenian sociologist, historical anthropologist and translator.
Beside in literature and historical anthropology she was/is engaged in civil actions and confrontations against clientelism and corruption in the scientific domain in the frames of Slovenia (in May 2000 she co-directed together with Sabina Mihelj a big public manifestation in Ljubljana against corrupted politics of the Ministry of Science and Technology; in 2004 she fought against illegal takeover of the institution ISH; in 2010 she again was a militant contra the total neoliberalization, venalization and degradation of the university as an autonomous institution and against the decomoposition of its fundamental scientific disciplines at the Faculty of Human Sciences Koper, University of Primorska; for the later see web:-site Save the University: ).
The same changes occurred also in the literary field in Slovenia. In 2004 when a writer and translator Iztok Osojnik as a director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival was ousted from the position of Vilenica's director at the Slovenian Writers’ Union (SWU), she was among the minority who supported him against mostly State maintained elite and regime supported writers and authors, meanwhile majority of writers remained quiet – also around two ardently debated subjects of growing nationalism and humiliation of women writers and translators in the frames of the SWU. (Polemics, which lasted the whole summer and autumn of 2004, was published in the review Apokalipsa, no. 84/85, 2004.) After that she distanced herself from the SWU’s network and writes literature by her own vocation and ethical standards.
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