Tone Seliškar was a Slovene writer

Writer

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, poet

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, journalist

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 and teacher

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. He published poetry, short stories and novels and is also known for his youth literature. Together with Mile Klopčič

Mile Klopčič

Mile Klopčič was a Slovenian poet and translator. Together with Tone Seliškar, he is considered as the foremost representative of Slovene social realist poetry of the 1930s and 1940s....

, he is considered the foremost representative of Slovene

Slovenian literature

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 social realist poetry of the 1930s and 1940s.

Seliškar was born in Ljubljana

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 in what was then Austria-Hungary

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 in 1900 as the youngest child in a family of seven children. He became a teacher and worked in Dramlje

Dramlje

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, Trbovlje

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 and Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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. At the encouragement of Prežihov Voranc

Prežihov Voranc

Prežihov Voranc was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar, a Slovene writer and Communist political activist. Voranc's literary reputation was established during the 1930s with a series of Slovene novels and short stories in the social realist style, notable for their depictions of poverty in rural and...

 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

Prešeren Award

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 for his story Tovariši (Comrades).

The public library

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 in Trbovlje

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is named after Seliškar.

Poetry collections

• Trbovlje (1923)
• Pesmi pričakovanja (Poems of Expectation) (1937)
• Sovražnik (The Enemy) (1944)
• V naročju domovine (On the Lap of the Motherland) (1947)

Youth literature

• Rudi (1929)
• Bratovščina Sinjega galeba (1936)
• Janko in Metka (1939)
• Hudournik (1939)
• Tovariši (1946)
• Mule (1948)
• Liščki (1950)
• Dedek Som (1953)
• Posadka brez ladje (1956)
• Velika gala predstava (1958)
• Deklica z junaškim srcem (1959)
• Martinček- sin brigade (1959)
• Jadra na koncu sveta (1962)
• Ribič Luka in delfin (1963)
• Otroci partizanskega rodu (1963)