Tone Seliškar
Tone Seliškar | |
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Born | Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia) | 1 April 1900
Died | 10 August 1969 Ljubljana | (aged 69)
Occupation |
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Notable works | Bratovščina Sinjega galeba, Mule |
Notable awards | Prešeren Award 1947 for the story 'Tovariši' |
Anton "Tone" Seliškar (1 April 1900 – 10 August 1969) was a
social realist
poetry of the 1930s and 1940s.
Seliškar was born in
partisans.[1] He used the motif of life in the partisans in many of his later works. After the war he worked as a journalist and editor.[2]
In 1947 he won the Prešeren Award for his story Tovariši (Comrades).[3]
The public library in Trbovlje is named after Seliškar.[4]
Slovene composer Breda Šček set Seliškar’s works to music.[5]
Youth literature
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References
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- ^ a b Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska.
- ISBN 961-6186-21-3
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients[permanent dead link]
- ^ Tone Seliškar Library site
- ^ "Šček, Breda (1893–1968) - Slovenska biografija". www.slovenska-biografija.si. Retrieved 17 April 2023.