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Victor Selwyn

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British journalist

Victor Selwyn MBE (1917–2005) was a British journalist whose career began during World War II with a collection of poems from soldiers. It was this work that led him to attain his MBE in 1996 He was associated with the Cairo poets, and was — along with Denis Saunders and David Burk — an editor of Oasis which grew into the Salamander Oasis Trust of which he was serving as editor-in-chief when he died.

References

  1. ^ Butts, Dennis (11 November 2005). "Obituary: Victor Selwyn". the Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  2. "Return to Oasis : war poems and recollections from the Middle East 1940-46". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  3. "Obituary: Victor Selwyn". salamanderoasis.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.


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