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

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