Milan Dekleva
Milan Dekleva | |
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| File:Milan Dekleva za klavirjem.jpg | |
| Born | 17 October 1946 |
| 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?.
Poetry collections
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Igra na vrhu, (1993)
Prose
[edit | edit source]- 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
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- ^ 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]
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- Slovenian poets
- Slovenian male poets
- Writers from Ljubljana
- Slovenian dramatists and playwrights
- Journalists from Ljubljana
- Slovenian composers
- Slovenian male composers
- Living people
- 1946 births
- Prešeren Award laureates
- Kresnik Award laureates
- Veronika Award laureates
- University of Ljubljana alumni
- Musicians from Ljubljana
- Slovenian male musicians
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