| Milan Dekleva | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 October 1946 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | poet, writer, playwright, composer, journalist |
| Notable work(s) | Mushi mushi, Zapriseženi prah, Zmagoslavje podgan |
| Notable award(s) | Prešeren Award 2006 for his lifetime literary work Kresnik Award 2006 Zmagoslavje podgan |
Milan Dekleva (born 17 October 1946) is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.[1]
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 (Mushi mushi, 1971).[2] Many of his poems deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God.[3]
He received a number of awards including the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1989 for his poetry collection Zapriseženi prah,[4] the Grand Prešeren Award in 2006 for his for his lifetime poetry and writing work [5] and the Kresnik Award for his novel Zmagoslavje podgan (The Triumph of the Rats), also in 2006.[6]
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