Anton "Tone" Seliškar (1 April 1900 – 10 August 1969) was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist and teacher.

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.

[1] At the encouragement of Prežihov Voranc Seliškar became an activist in the Slovene Liberation Front in 1942 and in 1943 joined the partisans.

[4] Slovene composer Breda Šček set Seliškar’s works to music.