Janez Kajzer (21 January 1938 – 13 August 2026) was a Slovene writer, journalist, translator and editor.
Life and career Kajzer was born in Vižmarje, Ljubljana on 21 January 1938. After finishing secondary school, he worked as a journalist at Mladina and Delo, and later, as an editor at Borec and Prešernova Družba publishing houses. He authored a number of novels and collections of short stories.
In 1960, he won the Levstik Award for his first published work, a collection of short stories Mimo dnevnega načrta (Beyond Daily Plans).
Kajzer died on 13 August 2026, at the age of 88.
Published works Mimo dnevnega načrta (Beyond Daily Plans), short stories, 1960 Klub v črnem (The Club in Black), novel, 1964 Macesen (The Larch), novel about Ivan Grohar, 1978 Prava moška družba (Real Male Company), short stories, 1979 Štirje srčni možje (Four Heary Men), the story of the first ascent of Triglav, 1980 S tramovi podprto mesto (A Town Held Up By Beams), cultural-historical stories, 1983 Obljubljeni kraj (The Promised Land), Portraits of Slovene emigrees to the US, 1984 Samorastnik izpod Blegoša (The Self-Made Mad from Under Mount Blegoš), 1998 Sanjska hiša (Dream House), novel, 2004 Skrivno oko (The Hidden Eye), short stories, 2005 Perpetuum mobile (Perpetuum mobile), short stories, 2007 V temnih, nemirnih nočeh (In Dark Restless Nights), short stories, 2009 Ovadba opolnoči (Midnight Charge), novel, 2011
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