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

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