Background
Dekleva was born in Ljubljana in 1946.
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). Many of his poems deal with the modern human condition in the absence of God.