Anton "Tone" Seliškar (1 April 1900 – 10 August 1969) was a
Slovene writer, poet, journalist and teacher. He published poetry, short stories and novels and is also known for his
young adult fiction. Together with
Mile Klopčič, he is considered the foremost representative of
Slovene social realist poetry of the 1930s and 1940s.
Seliškar was born in
Ljubljana in what was then
Austria-Hungary in 1900 as the youngest child in a family of seven children. He became a teacher and worked in
Dramlje
Dramlje (; german: Sankt Egidi) is one of the most populous settlements in the Municipality of Šentjur, in eastern Slovenia. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included in the Savinja Statistical Region, which is in the Slovenian ...
,
Trbovlje and
Ljubljana. At the encouragement of
Prežihov Voranc Seliškar became an activist in the
Slovene Liberation Front in 1942 and in 1943 joined the
partisans. 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.
In 1947 he won the
Prešeren Award for his story ''Tovariši'' (Comrades).
The
public library
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There are ...
in
Trbovlje is named after Seliškar.
Slovene composer
Breda Šček
Breda Friderika Šček Orel (20 August 1893 – 11 March 1968) was an Italian-Slovene composer, choir conductor, and singer. She published her music under the name Breda Šček.
Life
Šček was one of eight children born in Trieste to Slovene pa ...
set Seliškar’s works to music.
Youth literature
References
1900 births
1969 deaths
Slovenian male poets
Yugoslav Partisans members
Levstik Award laureates
Ethnic Slovene people
Writers from Ljubljana
20th-century Slovenian poets
Prešeren Award laureates
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