He studied Slavic languages in Ljubljana, and then law but he subsequently dropped out from school before graduation.
[3] Šeligo started writing poems in high school and published them in the handwritten student newspaper Škorec.
As a university student, he was the technical editor of the journal 1551,[4] and he was a founding member of the Slovenian Club (Slovene: Slovenski klub).
Šeligo started working for the Railway Directorate in Ljubljana in 1941, and he and his family relocated to Preserje.
[6][7] Šeligo's poetry has a melancholy and resigned character, and is characterized by themes of homelessness, alienation, difference, and loneliness.