Katja PERAT

 

Katja PERAT was born on 7 January 1988 in Ljubljana. She graduated in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 2012, and presently pursues her doctorate studies in Literary Sciences. She is the co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Idiot literary magazine, and she also contributes in the editing of the Slovenian literary magazine Literatura and AirBeletrina, the internet portal of the Študentska založba publishing house. She writes as a literary critic and publicist for the Slovenian cultural semi-monthly Pogledi. Her first book of poetry, Najboljši so padli (The Best Have Fallen), was published in 2011 by Študentska založba (Beletrina collection). In the same year it received the award for the best first-published author at the Slovenian Book Fair, and in 2012 also the book of the year award presented by the Association of Slovenian Literary Critics. The book was also nominated for the two major Slovenian poetry awards: the Jenko Award and the Veronika Award.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • MuntPunt
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Commission européenne
  • Swedish Institute
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • LOFT 58
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute