Katja GOREČAN

Katja Gorečan was born in 1989 in Celje, Slovenia. She received a Bachelor degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University in Ljubljana and finished Master studies in Dramaturgy at the Academy for Theatre, Direction, Film and Television, also in Ljubljana. She took part in a creative writing course, specializing in dramatics. This resulted in the realisation of her one-act drama Seven girl's questions. In 2012 her second poetry collection The Sorrows of Young Hana, which was nominated for Jenko Award, the highest poetry award in Slovenia and was selected into the Biennale of Young Artists from Mediterranean Europe. In 2017, her choreopoem One Night Some Girls Somewhere Are Dying was published by House of Poetry Poetikon.  She is not only artisticly, but socially engaged. She worked with demented patients in a nursing home, led creative workshops with female refugees and their children and also worked with mentally handicapped youth.

(c) photo: LR Photography

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