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Biography
Jela Krečič Žižek (born 1979) is a Slovenian writer and journalist. She has published two books to date: None Like Her (Ni druge) which has been translated into English by Istros Books, and The Book of Others (Knjiga drugih) which was published in 2018 and was nominated for the Kresnik Award.
Her father is the architectural historian Peter Krečič. Her husband is the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
Life and career
Jela Krečič graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana; in 2009, under the mentorship of Mladen Dolar, she earned a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts. She has been married to Slavoj Žižek since 2013.
She was employed by the newspaper Delo; in December 2013 her exclusive interview with Julian Assange was published by the newspaper in Slovenian and English. As of 2020 her personal opus, after 2002, includes over 500 bibliographic units.