Milan Dekleva Explained

Milan Dekleva
Birth Date:	17 October 1946
Birth Place:	Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Occupation:	Poet, writer, playwright, composer, journalist
Notableworks:	Mushi mushi, Zapriseženi prah, 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 andworks 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 lifetime poetry and writing work^[5] and the Kresnik Award for his novel Zmagoslavje podgan (The Triumph of the Rats), also in 2006.^[6] 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, (1971)
• Dopisovanja, (1978)
• Nagovarjanja, (1979)
• Narečje telesa, (1984)
• Zaprišeženi prah, (1987)
• Odjedanje božjega, (1988)
• Panični človek, (1990)
• Preseženi človek: izreki, (1992)
• Kvantaški stihi, (1994)
• Šepavi soneti, (1995)
• Jezikava rapsodija; Improvizacija na neznano temo, (1996)
• Glej medenico cvetne čaše, kako se razpira, (2001)
• Sosledja, (2001)
• V živi zob, (2003)

Plays

• Igra na vrhu, (1993)

Prose

• Oko v zraku (Eye in the Sky), novel, (1997)
• Pimlico, novel, (1998)
• Reševalec ptic (Bird Saviour), short stories (1999)
• Zmagoslavje podgan (The Triumph of Rats), novel, (2005)
• Izkušnje z daljavo (Experience of Distance), short stories, (2006)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Slovene Writers' Association site . Slovenian . Slovene writers' portal . . 10 November 2011 . https://archive.today/20120904081358/http://www.drustvopisateljev.si/si/pisatelji/1379/detail.html# . 4 September 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
2. Web site: University of Vienna site . Literatur im Kontext . University of Vienna . 10 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120415110750/https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/pl/node/23760 . 15 April 2012 . dmy-all .
3. http://www.jakrs.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Brosure_in_katalogi/Letaki_Frankfurt/Dekleva_Milan.pdf Milan Dekleva at the Frankfurt Book Fair, flyer published
4. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernovega_sklada_1962-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients
5. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/Presernove_nagrade1947-2011.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
6. Web site: Slovene Writers' Association site . Slovenian . Slovene writers' portal: Kresnik Award . DSP Slovene Writers' Association . 8 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111114224604/http://www.drustvo-dsp.si/si/drustvo_slovenskih_pisateljev/prireditve_nagrade/151/detail.html . 14 November 2011 .