Tone Seliškar
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.
Tone Seliškar
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- Name
- Tone Seliškar
- Born
- 1 April 1900
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia)
- Died
- 10 August 1969
- Place of death
- Ljubljana
- Occupation
- * Writer
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Serbs and Croats and Slovenes
- Honours
- Prešeren Award · Levstik Award
- Languages
- Slovene
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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.
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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, 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 in Trbovlje is named after Seliškar. Slovene composer Breda Šček set Seliškar's works to music.
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• Name — Tone Seliškar • Born — 1 April 1900 • Birthplace — Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia) • Died — 10 August 1969 • Place of death — Ljubljana • Occupation — * Writer • poet • teacher • journalist • Notable Works — Bratovščina Sinjega galeba, Mule
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1900
Tone Seliškar born at Ljubljana.
1969
Tone Seliškar died at Ljubljana.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1401283861, Tone Seliškar.
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- 1.Stanko Janež. Jugoslovenski književni leksikon. Matica srpska. 1971.
- 2.Helga Glušič, Sto Slovenskih Pripovednikov (Ljubljana: Prešernova družba, 1996)
- 3.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
- 4.Tone Seliškar Library site
- 5.Šček, Breda (1893–1968) - Slovenska biografija. www.slovenska-biografija.si.
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