Rudi Šeligo

Rudi Šeligo
Born(1935-05-14)14 May 1935
Sušak, Rijeka, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Croatia)
Died22 January 2004(2004-01-22) (aged 68)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation
  • Writer
  • playwright
  • essayist
  • politician
Literary movementModernism, avant-garde, magical realism, existentialism

Rudi Šeligo (pronounced [ˈɾúːdi ʃɛˈlìːɡɔ]; 14 May 1935 – 22 January 2004) was a Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician. Together with Lojze Kovačič and Drago Jančar, he is considered one of the foremost Slovenian modernist writers of the post-World War II period.