{{Short description|British journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}}

'''Victor Selwyn''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|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<ref name="guo">{{cite news |last1=Butts |first1=Dennis |title=Obituary: Victor Selwyn |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/11/obituaries.mainsection |access-date=28 April 2021 |work=the Guardian |date=11 November 2005 |language=en}}</ref> He was associated with the Cairo poets, and was &mdash; along with Denis Saunders and David Burk &mdash; an editor of ''Oasis'' which grew into the Salamander Oasis Trust of which he was serving as editor-in-chief when he died.<ref name="iwm">{{cite web |title=Return to Oasis : war poems and recollections from the Middle East 1940-46 |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1504018546 |website=Imperial War Museums |access-date=28 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="guo"/><ref name="sot">{{cite web |title=Obituary: Victor Selwyn |url=https://salamanderoasis.org/news/obituary-selwyn-victor.html |website=salamanderoasis.org |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref>

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