Berta Bojetu


Berta Bojetu, also Berta Bojetu Boeta, was a Slovene writer, poet and actress. She was one of the first Slovenian authors in the second half of the 20th century to address the question of Jewish identity in her literature.

Life

Bojetu was born in Maribor in 1946. She studied at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Ljubljana. She worked at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and was one of the cofounders of the theatre group Koreodrama. She died in Ljubljana in 1997.
In 1996 she received the Kresnik Award for her novel Ptičja hiša.
In 2002 an international symposium about Bojetu's work was organised in Maribor. The papers given at the symposium were published in 2004.
She was the mother of the historian and translator Klemen Jelinčič Boeta.

Published works