Tone Seliškar

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Tone Seliškar
Born(1900-04-01)1 April 1900
Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
Died10 August 1969(1969-08-10) (aged 69)
Ljubljana
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • teacher
  • journalist
Notable worksBratovščina Sinjega galeba, Mule
Notable awardsPrešeren 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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Tone Seliškar Library site
  4. ^ "Šček, Breda (1893–1968) - Slovenska biografija". www.slovenska-biografija.si. Retrieved 17 April 2023.