Milan Dekleva
Milan Dekleva is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.
Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946. He graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and
works as a journalist. He is best known for his poetry and has published over twenty peorty collections, a number of novels and collections of short stories. He was the first poet to publish haiku in Slovene. Many of his poems deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God.
He received a number of awards including the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1989 for his poetry collection Zapriseženi prah, the Grand Prešeren Award in 2006 for his lifetime poetry and writing work
and the Kresnik Award for his novel Zmagoslavje podgan, also in 2006. He won the Veronika Award twice, in 2003 for his poetry collection V živi zob and again in 2008 for Audrey Hepburn, slišiš metlo budističnega učenca?.Poetry collections
- Mushi mushi,
- Dopisovanja,
- Nagovarjanja,
- Narečje telesa,
- Zaprišeženi prah,
- Odjedanje božjega,
- Panični človek,
- Preseženi človek: izreki,
- Kvantaški stihi,
- Šepavi soneti,
- Jezikava rapsodija; Improvizacija na neznano temo,
- Glej medenico cvetne čaše, kako se razpira,
- Sosledja,
- V živi zob,
Plays
- Igra na vrhu,
Prose
- Oko v zraku, novel,
- Pimlico, novel,
- Reševalec ptic, short stories
- Zmagoslavje podgan, novel,
- Izkušnje z daljavo, short stories,
