Victor Selwyn (1917–2005) was a British journalist whose career began during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

with a collection of poems from soldiers. It was this work that led him to attain his

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in 1996 He was associated with the

Cairo poets The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had, as a side effect, the concentration of a group of Cairo poets. There had been a noticeable literary group in Cairo before the war in North Africa broke out, including university academics. Poss ...

, and was — along with Denis Saunders and David Burk — an editor of ''

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'' which grew into the Salamander Oasis Trust of which he was serving as editor-in-chief when he died.

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1917 births 2005 deaths British male journalists Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-journalist-stub