In his book 'Starry Nights' (Slovene: Zvezdnate noči), he wrote about his experiences in the 1986 Slovenian expedition to the Karakoram mountain range, that conquered the 8047 m high Broad Peak. It was published as serial in Primorski dnevnik, and then it was translated as Le notti stellate into Italian, it became a best seller in Italy and won four literary prizes (including the international Acerbi Prize). Among Jelinčič's other works, the most famous is 'Night in the Docks' (Tema v pomolu), the Italian translation of which (Scacco nel buio) won the prize Scritture di Frontiera in 2006, ex aequo with Predrag Matvejević.