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Milan Dekleva
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Milan Dekleva (born 17 October 1946) is a Slovene poet, writer, playwright, composer and journalist.[1]
Key Information
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?.
Poetry collections
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Igra na vrhu, (1993)
Prose
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ "Slovene Writers' Association site". Slovene writers' portal (in Slovenian). DSP Slovene Writers' Association. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "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.
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