Milan Dekleva | |
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| Born | 17 October 1946 Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, playwright, composer, journalist |
| Notable works | Mushi mushi, Zapriseženi prah, Zmagoslavje podgan |
| Notable awards | Rožanc Award 1999 for Gnezda in katedrale Veronika Award 2003 for V živi zob Prešeren Award 2006 for his lifetime literary work Kresnik Award 2006 Zmagoslavje podgan Veronika Award 2008 for Audrey Hepburn, slišiš metlo budističnega učenca? |
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 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?.
- ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "University of Vienna site". Literatur im Kontext. University of Vienna. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ Milan Dekleva at the Frankfurt Book Fair, flyer published by the Slovenian Book Agency Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipients[permanent dead link]
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal: Kresnik Award (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.