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?.

• 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)

• Igra na vrhu, (1993)

• 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)